The effect of ethambutol on mycobacterial cell wall permeability to hydrophobic compounds

Polish Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-11

  Korycka Machała, Małgorzata ^a   Rumijowska Galewicz, Anna ^a   Dziadek, Jarosław ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ethambutol; Mycobacterial cell wall; Permeability

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; ARABINOGALACTAN; BOLDIONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; RIFAMPICIN; SITOSTEROL;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DEGRADATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GROWTH INHIBITION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM VACCAE; NONHUMAN; SENSITIZATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL WALL; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; HYDROPHOBICITY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIUM; RIFAMPIN; SITOSTEROLS;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM VACCAE;

EID: 20744434415     PISSN: 17331331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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