Acquired Macrolide Resistance Genes in Pathogenic Neisseria spp. Isolated between 1940 and 1987

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3877-3880

  Cousin Jr , Sydney ^a   Whittington, William L H ^a   Roberts, Marilyn C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; PROTEIN ERM; PROTEIN MEF; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSPOSON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DENMARK; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0345306159     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.12.3877-3880.2003     Document Type: Article

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