Intrinsic penicillin resistance in enterococci

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 209-213

  Fontana, Roberta ^a   Ligozzi, Marco ^a   Pittaluga, Fabrizia ^a   Satta, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBODY; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CROSS REACTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0029952231     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1996.2.209     Document Type: Article

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