QacA multidrug efflux pump from Staphylococcus aureus: Comparative analysis of resistance to diamidines, biguanidines, and guanylhydrazones

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 475-477

  Mitchell, Bernadette A ^b   Brown, Melissa H ^b   Skurray, Ronald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,4' IMINODIBENZAMIDINE DIHYDROCHLORIDE; ALEXIDINE; AMIDINOHYDRAZONE; BIGUANIDE DERIVATIVE; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHLORHEXIDINE; DIAMIDINE DERIVATIVE; DIBROMPROPAMIDINE; DIMINAZENE; HEXAMIDINE; HYDRAZONE DERIVATIVE; PENTAMIDINE; PHENAMIDINE; PROGUANIL; PROPAMIDINE; STILBAMIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DRUG TRANSPORT; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031938067     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.42.2.475     Document Type: Article

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