Involvement of a 70-kb plasmid of the epidemic Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (Dt66) strain in drug-resistance, lipopolysaccharide synthesis, and virulence

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 351-357

  Datta, S ^a   Pal, A ^b   Basu, S ^c   Banerjee, P C ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^c DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; NALIDIXIC ACID; PIVMECILLINAM; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; EPIDEMIC; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; LIPOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAVIA; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE;

EID: 0031414926     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1997.3.351     Document Type: Article

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