The Cfr rRNA methyltransferase confers resistance to phenicols, lincosamides, oxazolidinones, pleuromutilins, and streptogramin A antibiotics

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2500-2505

  Long, Katherine S ^a   Poehlsgaard, Jacob ^b   Kehrenberg, Corinna ^c   Schwarz, Stefan ^c   Vester, Birte ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLISOVALERYLTYLOSIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL DERIVATIVE; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLORFENICOL; LINCOSAMIDE DERIVATIVE; LINEZOLID; OXAZOLIDINONE DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PLEUROMUTILIN; RNA 23S; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; TELITHROMYCIN; TIAMULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALNEMULIN; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CFR GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BINDING; DRUG BINDING SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA METHYLATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DITERPENES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OXAZOLIDINONES; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; RIBOSOMES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOGRAMIN A; THIAMPHENICOL;

EID: 33745599646     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00131-06     Document Type: Article

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