Clinical isolates of the Spain14-5 clone of Streptococcus pneumoniae carry a recombinant rpoB gene [3]

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4811-4813

  Ferradiz M J ^a   Perez Trallero E ^b   Marimon J M ^b   De La Campa, A G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DONOSTIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RPOB PROTEIN, STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RECOMBINANT GENE; RPOB GENE; SPAIN; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RIFAMPIN; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 27644579461     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.11.4811-4813.2005     Document Type: Letter

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