Selection of multiple-antibiotic-resistant (mar) mutants of Escherichia coli by using the disinfectant pine oil: Roles of the mar and acrAB loci

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2770-2772

  Moken, Merri C ^b   McMurry, Laura M ^a   Levy, Stuart B ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DISINFECTANT AGENT; NALIDIXIC ACID; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; DRUG SELECTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030809884     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.41.12.2770     Document Type: Note

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