Effects of various types of Triton X on the susceptibilities of methicillin-resistant staphylococci to oxacillin

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 327-331

  Suzuki, Junji ^a   Komatsuzawa, Hitoshi ^a   Sugai, Motoyuki ^a   Ohta, Koji ^a   Kozai, Katsuyuki ^a   Nagasaka, Nobuo ^a   Suginaka, Hidekazu ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coagulase negative staphylococci; Lipoteichoic acid; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Triton X

Indexed keywords

LIPOTEICHOIC ACID; OCTOXINOL; OXACILLIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOLYSIS; DRUG SENSITIVITY; MICELLE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

DETERGENTS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; OCTOXYNOL; OXACILLIN; PENICILLINS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCIURI;

EID: 0030798089     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00269-3     Document Type: Article

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