The 7.5-kb common plasmid is unrelated to the drug susceptibility of Chlamydia trachomatis

Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 113-116

  Miyashita, N ^a   Matsumoto, A ^b   Fukano, H ^a   Niki, Y ^a   Matsushima, T ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlamydia trachomatis; Drug susceptibility; Glycogen negative strain; Morphology; Plasmid free strain

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; GLYCOGEN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MINOCYCLINE; OFLOXACIN; ROXITHROMYCIN; SPARFLOXACIN; TOSUFLOXACIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL INCLUSION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLONING; DRUG SENSITIVITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID;

EID: 0034937051     PISSN: 1341321X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s101560100018     Document Type: Article

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