Escherichia coli genes involved in resistance to pyrazinoic acid, the active component of the tuberculosis drug pyrazinamide

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 265-270

  Schaller, Alain ^a   Guo, Ming ^a   Gisanrin, Oluwatosin ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Efflux; Escherichia coli; Pyrazinoic acid; TolC; Weak acid susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ACONITATE HYDRATASE; PYRAZINAMIDE; PYRAZINOIC ACID;

ACNA GENE; ACRB GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EMRB GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOLC GENE; TRANSPOSON; TUBERCULOSIS;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NICOTINAMIDASE; PYRAZINAMIDE; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; POA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0037018901     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)00706-1     Document Type: Article

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