Lack of cell wall peptidoglycan versus penicillin sensitivity: New insights into the chlamydial anomaly

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2339-2344

  Ghuysen, Jean Marie ^a   Goffin, Colette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MURAMIC ACID; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; N ACETYLMURAMIC ACID; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CELL CYCLE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0032847094     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.10.2339     Document Type: Short Survey

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