Emergence of rifampin-resistant Rhodococcus equi with several types of mutations in the rpoB gene among AIDS patients in Northern Thailand

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2337-2340

  Asoh, Norichika ^a   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^a   Fines Guyon, Marguerite ^b   Watanabe, Kiwao ^a   Oishi, Kazunori ^a   Kositsakulchai, Weerayut ^c   Sanchai, Tippaya ^c   Kunsuikmengrai, Khemrassamee ^c   Kahintapong, Sumpun ^c   Khantawa, Banyong ^c   Tharavichitkul, Prasit ^c   Sirisanthana, Thira ^c   Nagatake, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHU CÔTE DE NACRE   (France)

^c Faculty of Medicine Chiang Mai University   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; GENE PRODUCT; HISTIDINE; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT; SERINE; TEICOPLANIN; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ABSCESS; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; THAILAND;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0038180832     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.6.2337-2340.2003     Document Type: Article

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