Antibiotic resistance as a stress response: Complete sequencing of a large number of chromosomal loci in Staphylococcus aureus strain COL that impact on the expression of resistance to methicillin

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 163-175

  De Lencastre, H ^a,b   Wu, S W ^a   Pinho, M G ^a,b   Ludovice, A M ^b,c   Filipe, S ^a,b   Gardete, S ^b   Sobral, R ^b   Gill, S ^d   Chung, M ^a   Tomasz, A ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^d J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; METICILLIN; PROTEIN KINASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; OPEN READING FRAME; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRESS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PROKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0032755508     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1999.5.163     Document Type: Article

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