ampR gene mutations that greatly increase class C β-lactamase activity in Enterobacter cloacae

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 561-567

  Kuga, Akio ^a   Okamoto, Ryoichi ^a   Inoue, Matsuhisa ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFALORIDINE; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTIAM; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; LATAMOXEF;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AZTREONAM; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN RESISTANCE; CEPHALOSPORINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOBACTAMS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0033997202     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.44.3.561-567.2000     Document Type: Article

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