Two novel plasmid-mediated cefotaxime-hydrolyzing β-lactamases (CTX-M-5 and CTX-M-6) from Salmonella typhimurium

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 289-293

  Gazouli, Maria ^a   Tzelepi, Eva ^a   Markogiannakis, Antonios ^b   Legakis, Nicholas J ^b   Tzouvelekis, Leonidas S ^a,b  

^a HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Lactamase; Cefotaxime; Resistance; Salmonella typhimurium

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; CEFOTAXIME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CEFOTAXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN RESISTANCE; CEPHALOSPORINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0032463327     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00290-0     Document Type: Article

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