Modification of penicillin-binding protein 5 associated with high-level ampicillin resistance in Enterococcus faecium

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 354-357

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0030053627     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.40.2.354     Document Type: Article

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