Association of organic solvent tolerance and fluoroquinolone resistance in clinical isolates of Escherichia coli

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 111-114

  Oethinger, Margret ^a   Kern, Winfried V ^c   Goldman, John D ^a,b,d   Levy, Stuart B ^a,b  

^a Ctr Adaptation Genet Drug Resist   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^d Polyclinic Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC SOLVENT; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CYCLOHEXANES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUOROQUINOLONES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SOLVENTS; STATISTICS;

EID: 0031908368     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/41.1.111     Document Type: Article

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