Distribution of florfenicol resistance genes fexA and cfr among chloramphenicol-resistant Staphylococcus isolates

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1156-1163

  Kehrenberg, Corinna ^a   Schwarz, Stefan ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR TIERZUCHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLORFENICOL; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CFR GENE; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEXA GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC LINKAGE; INVERSE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; THIAMPHENICOL;

EID: 33645761164     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.50.4.1156-1163.2006     Document Type: Article

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