Postantibiotic effect and delay of regrowth in strains carrying mutations that save proteins or RNA

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 4022-4025

  Dolcino, Marzia ^a   Zoratti, Alberto ^a   Debbia, Eugenio A ^a   Schito, Gian Carlo ^a   Marchese, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; CHLORAMPHENICOL; IMIPENEM; NALIDIXIC ACID; PROTEINASE; RIBONUCLEASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNAA146 GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GYRA43 GENE; GYRB41 GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECA13 GENE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; TIME;

AMIKACIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMIPENEM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; NALIDIXIC ACID; PHENOTYPE; RNA, BACTERIAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036897157     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.46.12.4022-4025.2002     Document Type: Article

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