Molecular basis for resistance to silver cations in Salmonella

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 183-188

  Gupta, Amit ^a   Matsui, Kazuaki ^a   Lo, Jeng Fan ^a   Silver, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILVER;

ARTICLE; BURN INFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BURNS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; P-GLYCOPROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA, BACTERIAL; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SILVER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WOUND INFECTION;

ANIMALIA; PROKARYOTA; SALMONELLA;

EID: 0032905563     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/5545     Document Type: Article

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