Deletion of the multiple-drug efflux pump AcrAB in Escherichia coli prolongs the postantibiotic effect

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1206-1208

  Stubbings, William ^a   Bostock, Julieanne ^a   Ingham, Eileen ^a   Chopra, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; NITROFURANTOIN; NOVOBIOCIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; PUROMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ACRAB GENE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DRUG TRANSPORT; DRUG UPTAKE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; POSTANTIBIOTIC EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER PROTEINS; ERYTHROMYCIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LIPOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; TETRACYCLINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 14744268650     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.3.1206-1208.2005     Document Type: Article

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