Constitutive soxR mutations contribute to multiple-antibiotic resistance in clinical Escherichia coli isolates

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2746-2752

  Koutsolioutsou, Anastasia ^a   Peña Llopis, Samuel ^a   Demple, Bruce ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PHOSPHORUS 32; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RNA 16S; SOXR PROTEIN; SOXS PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MISSENSE MUTATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOXR GENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 21444435491     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.7.2746-2752.2005     Document Type: Article

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