Mutator bacteria as a risk factor in treatment of infectious diseases

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 863-865

  Giraud, Antoine ^a   Matic, Ivan ^a   Radman, Miroslav ^a   Fons, Michel ^a   Taddei, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

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Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; FOSFOMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG SPECIFICITY; GERMFREE ANIMAL; GNOTOBIOTICS; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MOUSE; MUTATION RATE; MUTATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GERM-FREE LIFE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MUTATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0036167884     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.46.3.863-865.2002     Document Type: Article

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