Interplay between efflux pumps may provide either additive or multiplicative effects on drug resistance

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3142-3150

  Lee, Angela ^a   Mao, Weimin ^a   Warren, Mark S ^a   Mistry, Anita ^a   Hoshino, Kazuki ^b   Okumura, Ryo ^b   Ishida, Hiroko ^b   Lomovskaya, Olga ^a  

^a Microcide Pharmaceuticals Inc   (United States)

^b DAIICHI SANKYO CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; DRUG TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHLORAMPHENICOL RESISTANCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0034115142     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.11.3142-3150.2000     Document Type: Article

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