Resistances to protein biosynthesis inhibitors in staphylococci: Resistance genes and their spread - Review;Resistenzen gegenüber proteinbiosyntheseinhibitoren bei staphylokokken: Resistenzgene und ihre ausbreitung - Übersichtsreferat

Berliner und Munchener Tierarztliche Wochenschrift

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 324-332

  Werckenthin, Christiane ^a   Schwarz, St ^a  

^a Inst F Kleintierforschung C   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Protein biosynthesis inhibitors; Resistance; Resistance genes; Staphylococci

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; R FACTOR; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TRANSPOSON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; R FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0031226854     PISSN: 00059366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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