Antibiotic-dependent correlation between drug-induced killing and loss of luminescence in Streptococcus gordonii expressing luciferase

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 123-131

  Loeliger, B ^a   Caldelari, I ^a   Bizzini, A ^a   Meier, P Stutzmann ^a   Majcherczyk, P A ^a   Moreillon, Philippe ^a,b  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID COENZYME A LIGASE; LUCIFERASE; PENICILLIN G;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LUMINESCENCE; MACROMOLECULE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

EID: 0038613552     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/107662903765826705     Document Type: Article

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