Cloning and sequence analysis of a class A β-lactamase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1182-1185

  Hackbarth, Corinne J ^a,b   Unsal, Ibrahim ^a,c   Chambers, Henry F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOLYTE; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; CEFOXITIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; KANAMYCIN; NITROCEFIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; DNA LIBRARY; GENE LIBRARY; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030935653     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.41.5.1182     Document Type: Article

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