Implication of ermX genes in macrolide- and telithromycin-resistance in Corynebacterium jeikeium and Corynebacterium amycolatum;Implicación de los genes ermX en la resistencia a los macrólidos y la telitromicina de Corynebacterium jeikeium y Corynebacterium amycolatum

Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 236-242

  Yague Guirao G ^a,b   Mora Peris, B ^b   Martinez Toldos M C ^a   Rodriguez Gonzalez T ^a,b   Valero Guillen P L ^b   Segovia Hernandez M ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium; Macrolide resistance; Telithromycin

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DIRITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; JOSAMYCIN; KETOLIDE; MACROLIDE; MIDECAMYCIN; ROXITHROMYCIN; TELITHROMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ERMX PROTEIN, CORYNEBACTERIUM JEIKEIUM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM AMYCOLATUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM STRIATUM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KETOLIDES; MACROLIDES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

EID: 28844476476     PISSN: 02143429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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