Two new mechanisms of macrolide resistance in clinical strains of streptococcus pneumoniae from Eastern Europe and North America

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 3395-3401

  Tait Kamradt, A ^a   Davies, T ^a   Appelbaum, P C ^a   Depardieu, F ^a   Courvalin, P ^a   Petitpas, J ^a   Wondrack, L ^a   Walker, A ^a   Jacobs, M R ^a   Sutcliffe, J ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GLYCINE; JOSAMYCIN; KETOLIDE; LINCOMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MIKAMYCIN B; PENICILLIN G; PROLINE; PROTEIN ERM(B); PROTEIN L4; PROTEIN MEF(A); RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA 23S; SERINE; TELITHROMYCIN; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TRANSPORT; EASTERN EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; METHYLATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EUROPE, EASTERN; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NORTH AMERICA; PHENOTYPE; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0034425847     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.44.12.3395-3401.2000     Document Type: Article

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