Target range of Zwittermicin A, an aminopolyol antibiotic from Bacillus cereus

Current Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 6-11

  Silo Suh, Laura A ^a,b   Stabb, Eric V ^a,c   Raffel, Sandra J ^a   Handelsman, Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; KANOSAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZWITTERMICIN A;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIOSTASIS; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OOMYCETES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS CEREUS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FUNGI; GLUCOSAMINE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OOMYCETES; PEPTIDES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ALGAE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; OOMYCETES; PHYTOPHTHORA; POSIBACTERIA; PROTISTA;

EID: 0031802735     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900328     Document Type: Article

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