Emergence of vancomycin tolerance in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6736, 1999, Pages 590-593

  Novak, R ^a   Henriques, B ^b   Charpentier, E ^a   Normark, S ^b   Tuomanen, E ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIOSTASIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC RESISTANCE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PROTEIN KINASES; RABBITS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PNEUMOCOCCUS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0033542413     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/21202     Document Type: Article

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