Molecular characterization of resistance mechanisms to chloramphenicol in Shigella flexneri strains isolated from Chilean children with acute diarrhea;Caracterización molecular de mecanismos de resistencia a cloranfenicol en cepas de Shigella flexneri aisladas en niños chilenos con diarrea aguda

Revista Medica de Chile

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 275-280

  Farfán U, Mauricio ^b   Flores G, Oscar ^b   Navarro G, Niurka ^b   Prado J, Valeria ^b   Mora L, Guido ^b   Toro U, Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chloramphenicol o acetyl transferase; Chloramphenicol resistance; Genes, cat; Shigella flexneri

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHILD; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL RESISTANCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 0346047900     PISSN: 00349887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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