Resistance to β-lactam antibiotics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa due to interplay between the MexAB-OprM efflux pump and β-lactamase

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1301-1303

  Nakae, Taiji ^a   Nakajima, Akira ^a   Ono, Toshihisa ^a   Saito, Kohjiro ^a   Yoneyama, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBENICILLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOPERAZONE; CEFOZOPRAN; CEFPIROME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; OFLOXACIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE INSERTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032906825     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.5.1301     Document Type: Article

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