Fluoroquinolone resistance in Ureaplasma parvum in the United States

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1590-1591

  Duffy, Lynn ^a   Glass, John ^b   Hall, Geraldine ^c   Avery, Robin ^c   Rackley, Raymond ^c   Peterson, Scott ^b   Waites, Ken ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING) A; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; GEMIFLOXACIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PROTEIN PARC; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE MUTATION; GYRA GENE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PARC GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA PARVUM;

ADULT; DNA GYRASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE IV; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FLUOROQUINOLONES; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; UNITED STATES; UREAPLASMA; VAGINA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA PARVUM;

EID: 33645954577     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.4.1590-1591.2006     Document Type: Article

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