Fluoroquinolone resistance in invasive Streptococcus pyogenes isolates due to spontaneous mutation and horizontal gene transfer

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 943-948

  Pletz, M W R ^a,e   McGee, L ^a   Van Beneden, C A ^c   Petit, S ^f   Bardsley, M ^d   Barlow, M ^a   Klugman, K P ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Georgia Emerging Infections Program   (United States)

^e HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^f CDC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RESERPINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GYRA GENE; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARC GENE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CIPROFLOXACIN; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FLUOROQUINOLONES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644653714     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.50.3.943-948.2006     Document Type: Article

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