Susceptibilities of oral and nasal isolates of Streptococcus mitis and Streptococcus oralis to macrolides and PCR detection of resistance genes

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1078-1080

  Ono, Tsuneko ^a   Shiota, Sumiko ^b   Hirota, Katsuhiko ^a   Nemoto, Ken ^a   Tsuchiya, Tomofusa ^b   Miyake, Yoichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; ROKITAMYCIN; ROXITHROMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; NOSE CAVITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENES, BACTERIAL; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOUTH; NASAL CAVITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0034018955     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.44.4.1078-1080.2000     Document Type: Article

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