Activation of multiple antibiotic resistance in uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains by aryloxoalcanoic acid compounds

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1815-1822

  Balagué, Claudia ^b   Véscovi, Eleonora García ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; CEFALOTIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLOFIBRIC ACID; ETACRYNIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXCRETION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PORINS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0343831482     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.45.6.1815-1822.2001     Document Type: Article

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