Very low cefotaxime concentrations select for hypermutable Streptococcus pneumoniae populations

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 528-530

  Negri, María Cristina ^a   Morosini, María Isabel ^a   Baquero, María Rosario ^a   Del Campo, Rosa ^a   Blázquez, Jesús ^a   Baquero, Fernando ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CEFOTAXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MIXED CELL CULTURE; MODEL; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CEFOTAXIME; CEPHALOSPORINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0036146421     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.46.2.528-530.2002     Document Type: Article

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