Polyamines induce resistance to cationic peptide, aminoglycoside, and quinolone antibiotics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1615-1622

  Kwon, Dong H ^a   Lu, Chung Dar ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMPICILLIN; CATIONIC PEPTIDE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MAGNESIUM; NORFLOXACIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN OPRH; POLYAMINE; POLYMYXIN B; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SPERMIDINE; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA MICROARRAY; FUSION GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LACZ GENE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OPRH GENE; PHOP GENE; PHOQ GENE; PMRB GENE; POLYAMINE METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPORTER GENE; STARVATION; TRANSPOSON;

AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MAGNESIUM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OPERON; POLYAMINES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUINOLONES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 33646462432     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.50.5.1615-1622.2006     Document Type: Article

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