Multiple resistance mechanisms in fluoroquinolone-resistant Salmonella isolates from Germany

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2059-

  Guerra, Beatriz ^a   Malorny, Burkhard ^a   Schroeter, Andreas ^a   Helmuth, Reiner ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYCLOHEXANE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING) A; ENROFLOXACIN; GENE PRODUCT; KANAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; OFLOXACIN; PROTEIN GRYB; PROTEIN PARC; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GERMANY; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CATTLE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FLUOROQUINOLONES; GERMANY; HUMANS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0038101656     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.6.2059.2003     Document Type: Letter

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