Characterization of a staphylococcal plasmid related to pUB110 and carrying two novel genes, vatC and vgbB, encoding resistance to streptogramins A and B and similar antibiotics

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1794-1798

  Allignet, Jeanine ^a   Liassine, Nadia ^a,b   El Solh, Névine ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DALFOPRISTIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; MIKAMYCIN B;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; GENETIC CODE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031863590     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.42.7.1794     Document Type: Article

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