Identification of mar mutants among quinolone-resistant clinical isolates of Escherichia coli

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1695-1698

  Maneewannakul, Kesmanee ^a,b   Levy, Stuart B ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BURAPHA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUINOLONE; SALICYLIC ACID; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DELETION MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030004341     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.40.7.1695     Document Type: Article

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