A multiple-antibiotic resistance-independent active chloramphenicol efflux in an Escherichia coli clinical isolate

Drugs under Experimental and Clinical Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 99-104

  Bellaaj, A ^a   Mallea, M ^b   Bollet, C ^b   Belhadj, C ^a   Belhadj, O ^a   Ben Mahrez, K ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE ACTIVATOR; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PLASMID DNA; STREPTOMYCIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACCUMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL RESISTANCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LIPOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0036933792     PISSN: 03786501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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