Further identification of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance determinant in Enterobacteriaceae in Turkey [4]

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2146-2147

  Nazic, Hasan ^a   Poirel, Laurent ^b   Nordmann, Patrice ^b  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMIDE DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QNRA GENE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; QUINOLONES; TURKEY;

EID: 18244376579     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.5.2146-2147.2005     Document Type: Letter

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