Expression of Pseudomonas aeruginosa multidrug efflux pumps mexA-mexB- OprM and MexC-MexD-OprJ in a multidrug-sensitive Escherichia coli strain

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-71

  Srikumar, Ramakrishnan ^a   Kon, Tatiana ^a   Gotoh, Naomasa ^b   Poole, Keith ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KYOTO PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFALORIDINE; CEFEPIME; CEFOPERAZONE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFPIROME; CEFSULODIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CRYSTAL VIOLET; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; NORFLOXACIN; NOVOBIOCIN; PEFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SPARFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE; TICARCILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0031962577     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.42.1.65     Document Type: Article

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