Mutations of the gyrA gene of clinical isolates of Salmonella typhimurium and three other Salmonella species leading to decreased susceptibilities to 4-quinolone drugs

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 351-356

  Brown, J C ^a   Thomson, C J ^a   Amyes, S G B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; INDIA; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; UNITED KINGDOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GREAT BRITAIN; INDIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0029968918     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/37.2.351     Document Type: Article

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