Mechanisms of resistance to imipenem and ampicillin in Enterococcus faecalis

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2954-2958

  Ono, Seiji ^a   Muratani, Tetsuro ^a   Matsumoto, Tetsuro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFOTAXIME; HISTIDINE; IMIPENEM; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 4; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PROLINE; SERINE; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; VANA GENE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 21444450810     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.7.2954-2958.2005     Document Type: Article

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