Contribution of penicillin-binding protein homologs to antibiotic resistance, cell morphology, and virulence of Listeria monocytogenes EGDe

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2824-2828

  Guinane, Caitriona M ^a,c,d   Cotter, Paul D ^a   Ross, R Paul ^b,c   Hill, Colin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMINOPENICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; IMIPENEM; METICILLIN; MONOBACTAM DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL STRUCTURE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LMO0441 GENE; LMO0540 GENE; LMO1892 GENE; LMO2039 GENE; LMO2229 GENE; LMO2754 GENE; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PENICILLINS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 33746961704     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00167-06     Document Type: Article

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