Identification and characterization of a new porin gene of Klebsiella pneumoniae: Its role in β-lactam antibiotic resistance

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2726-2732

  Doménech Sánchez, Antonio ^a   Hernández Allés, Santiago ^a   Martínez Martínez, Luis ^b   Benedí, Vicente J ^a   Albertí, Sebastián ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c Department of Physics   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PORIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0344004830     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.9.2726-2732.1999     Document Type: Article

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