Salmonella gene rma (ramA) and multiple-drug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2292-2294

  Van Der Straaten, Tahar ^a   Janssen, Riny ^a   Mevius, Dik J ^b   Van Dissel, Jaap T ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; FLORFENICOL; FLUMEQUINE; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MARA GENE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMA GENE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 2542499765     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.6.2292-2294.2004     Document Type: Article

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