Antibiotic-induced enterococcal expansion in the mouse intestine occurs throughout the small bowel and correlates poorly with suppression of competing flora

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3117-3123

  Laktic̀ová, Viera ^a   Hutton Thomas, Rebecca ^a   Meyer, Matthew ^b   Gurkan, Evren ^c   Rice, Louis B ^a,b,d  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^d LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFEPIME; CEFOTETAN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLINDAMYCIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TETRACYCLINE; TIMENTIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; GROWTH INHIBITION; MOUSE; MULTIRESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMALL INTESTINE; SMALL INTESTINE MUCOSA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; CLAVULANIC ACIDS; CLINDAMYCIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTESTINE, SMALL; METRONIDAZOLE; MICE; PENICILLANIC ACID; PIPERACILLIN; TICARCILLIN;

EID: 33748685470     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00125-06     Document Type: Article

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