The AcrAB-TolC efflux pump contributes to multidrug resistance in the nosocomial pathogen Enterobacter aerogenes

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 2640-2643

  Pradel, Elizabeth ^a   Pagès, Jean Marie ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PROTEIN ACRA; PROTEIN ACRB; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOLC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TOLC PROTEIN, E COLI;

ACRAB GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOLC GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0035991982     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.46.8.2640-2643.2002     Document Type: Article

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