DNA gyrase-mediated natural resistance to fluoroquinolones in Ehrlichia spp.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 2098-2105

  Maurin, M ^a   Abergel, C ^a   Raoult, D ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; AMOXICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); DOXYCYCLINE; OFLOXACIN; PRIMER DNA; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SERINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NEORICKETTSIA SENNETSU; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; FLUOROQUINOLONES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0034962924     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.45.7.2098-2105.2001     Document Type: Article

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