An evaluation of the potential of the multiple antibiotic resistance operon (mar) and the multidrug efflux pump acrAB to moderate resistance towards ciprofloxacin in Escherichia coli biofilms

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 789-795

  Maira Litran T ^a   Allison, David G ^a   Gilbert, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OPERON;

AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CEPHALOSPORIN RESISTANCE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CULTURE MEDIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; OPERON; PENICILLINS; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 0034079907     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/45.6.789     Document Type: Article

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