Genetic bases of the rifampin resistance phenotype in Brucella spp.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 5439-5443

  Marianelli, Cinzia ^a   Ciuchini, Franco ^a   Tarantino, Michela ^a   Pasquali, Paolo ^a   Adone, Rosanna ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRUCELLA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RIFAMPIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 10844227193     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.12.5439-5443.2004     Document Type: Article

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