Macrolide efflux in Streptococcus pneumoniae is mediated by a dual efflux pump (mel and mef) and is erythromycin inducible

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 4203-4209

  Ambrose, Karita D ^a,d   Nisbet, Rebecca ^a   Stephens, David S ^a,b,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CARBON 14; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENOMIC DNA; KANAMYCIN; MACROLIDE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DELETION MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MEFA GENE; MEFE GENE; MEL GENE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MACROLIDES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 25844441125     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.10.4203-4209.2005     Document Type: Article

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