Antibacterial activity of quinolones against coagulase-negative staphylococci and the quinolone resistance-determining region of the gyrA genes from six species

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 383-386

  Takahata, Masahiro ^a   Yonezawa, Minoru ^a   Matsubara, Nobuyuki ^a   Watanabe, Yasuo ^a   Narita, Hirokazu ^a   Matsunaga, Teiichi ^b   Igarashi, Hiroshi ^b   Kawahara, Motoshi ^b   Onodera, Soichi ^b   Oishi, Yukihiko ^b  

^a TOYAMA CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; ENOXACIN; FLEROXACIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SPARFLOXACIN; TOSUFLOXACIN;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DNA SEQUENCE; JAPAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; COAGULASE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FLUOROQUINOLONES; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAPHTHYRIDINES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUINOLONES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0030763263     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/40.3.383     Document Type: Article

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