A new resistance gene, linB, conferring resistance to lincosamides by nucleotidylation in Enterococcus faecium HM1025

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 925-929

  Bozdogan, Bülent ^a,b   Berrezouga, Latifa ^a   Kou, Ming Shang ^c   Yurek, David A ^c   Farley, Kathleen A ^c   Stockman, Brian J ^c   Leclercq, Roland ^a,b,d  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CHU CÔTE DE NACRE   (France)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; LINCOMYCIN; NOVOBIOCIN; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0032917719     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.4.925     Document Type: Article

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