Involvement of an active efflux system in the natural resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to aminoglycosides

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2624-2628

  Aires, Julio Ramos ^a   Köhler, Thilo ^b   Nikaido, Hiroshi ^c   Plésiat, Patrick ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL JEAN MINJOZ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DRUG TRANSPORT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0345466364     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.11.2624     Document Type: Article

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