Identification of the Haemophilus influenzae tolC Gene by Susceptibility Profiles of Insertionally Inactivated Efflux Pump Mutants

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1416-1418

  Trepod, Catherine M ^a   Mott, John E ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRIFLAVINE; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBENICILLIN; CETRIMIDE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHOLIC ACID; CIPROFLOXACIN; CRYSTAL VIOLET; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; FUSIDIC ACID; LINEZOLID; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; NOVOBIOCIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PLUMBAGIN; PROFLAVINE; PUROMYCIN; RHODAMINE 6G; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOLC PROTEIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; TRITON X 100;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; LIPOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 1642543080     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.4.1416-1418.2004     Document Type: Article

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