Discarding multidrug resistance inducers, the possible role of a biosensing reporter in antimicrobial discovery

Luminescence

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 225-227

  Galluzzi, Lorenzo ^a,b   Virtanen, Pekka ^a   Karp, Matti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bioluminescence; High throughput screening (HTS); pQacLux; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DNA; DRUG PRODUCTS;

BIOSENSING; DRUG DISCOVERY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IN-VIVO; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PATHOGENICS; PQACLUX; PROPERTY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

DISINFECTANTS;

DISINFECTANT AGENT; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOSENSOR; CHEMICAL MODEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HOSPITAL; LUMINESCENCE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; REPORTER GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 14744280767     PISSN: 15227235     EISSN: 10991271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bio.771     Document Type: Article

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