Use of an efflux-deficient Streptococcus pneumoniae strain panel to identify ABC-class multidrug transporters involved in intrinsic resistance to antimicrobial agents

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4781-4783

  Robertson, Gregory T ^a   Doyle, Timothy B ^a   Lynch, A Simon ^a  

^a Cumbre Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ACRIDINE; ACRIFLAVINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BERBERINE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; FUSIDIC ACID; GATIFLOXACIN; KANAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; NOVOBIOCIN; OXOLINIC ACID; PROTEIN SP2073; PROTEIN SP2075; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; SPARFLOXACIN; TRICLOSAN; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TRANSPORT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 27644571508     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.11.4781-4783.2005     Document Type: Article

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