Erythromycin resistance and genetic elements carrying macrolide efflux genes in Streptococcus agalactiae

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 5069-5074

  Marimón, José María ^a   Valiente, Adoración ^a   Ercibengoa, María ^a   García Arenzana, José M ^a   Pérez Trallero, Emilio ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DONOSTIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERM GENE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEF GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TET GENE; TRANSPOSON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ERYTHROMYCIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; PREGNANCY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 28844434894     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.12.5069-5074.2005     Document Type: Article

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