Resistance determinants for β-lactam antibiotics in laboratory mutants of Streptococcus pneumoniae that are involved in genetic competence

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 187-191

  Zähner, Dorothea ^a   Grebe, Thorsten ^a   Guenzi, Eric ^a,c   Krau, Jan ^a   Van Linden, Mark Der ^a   Terhune, Kyla ^b   Stock, Jeffry B ^b   Hakenbeck, Regine ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Instituto di Richerche Immunobiologiche   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFOTAXIME; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PIPERACILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; GENE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MUTANT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0029891736     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1996.2.187     Document Type: Article

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