Protected environments allow parallel evolution of a bacterial pathogen in a patient subjected to long-term antibiotic therapy

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 619-630

  Low, Alison S ^a   MacKenzie, Fiona M ^b   Gould, Ian M ^b   Booth, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS GRAMPIAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; INFECTION; LIVER CYST; LONG TERM CARE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CAROLI DISEASE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PORINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0035167241     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02647.x     Document Type: Article

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