Emergence of fosfomycin-resistant isolates of Shiga-like toxin-producing Escherichia coli O26

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 789-793

  Horii, Toshinobu ^a   Kimura, Taku ^a   Sato, Kumiko ^a   Shibayama, Keigo ^a   Ohta, Michio ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFACLOR; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; KANAMYCIN; MINOCYCLINE; NORFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; VEROTOXIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; DRUG CONJUGATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032891974     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.4.789     Document Type: Article

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