Mutations in Bartonella bacilliformis gyrB confer resistance to coumermycin A1

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2906-2913

  Battisti, James M ^a   Smitherman, Laura S ^a   Samuels, D Scott ^a   Minnick, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; COUMAMYCIN A1; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BARTONELLA BACILLIFORMIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HALOFERAX; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0031783660     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.42.11.2906     Document Type: Article

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