Plasmid-mediated high-level resistance to aminoglycosides in Enterobacteriaceae due to 16S rRNA methylation

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2565-2571

  Galimand, Marc ^a   Courvalin, Patrice ^a   Lambert, Thierry ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b Centre Pharmaceutique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 DEOXYSTREPTAMINE; AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMINOGLYCOSIDE RESISTANCE METHYLASE; AMPICILLIN; APRAMYCIN; BETA LACTAM; CYTOSINE; FORTIMICIN; GENTAMICIN; GUANINE; ISEPAMICIN; KANAMYCIN B; METHYLTRANSFERASE; NETILMICIN; PLASMID VECTOR; RNA 16S; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AAC3 II GENE; ACTINOBACTERIA; ANT3'',9 GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARMA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLA CTX M GENE; BLA TEM1 GENE; DHFR XII GENE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RNA METHYLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUL1 GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 0042268055     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.8.2565-2571.2003     Document Type: Article

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