Macrolide resistance in Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli: Molecular mechanism and stability of the resistance phenotype

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2753-2759

  Gibreel, Amera ^a   Kos, Veronica N ^a   Keelan, Monika ^a,b   Trieber, Cathy A ^a   Levesque, Simon ^c   Michaud, Sophie ^c   Taylor, Diane E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENOMIC DNA; MACROLIDE; RNA 23S; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DNA SEQUENCE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CATTLE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POINT MUTATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 21444449865     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.7.2753-2759.2005     Document Type: Article

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