Amino acid substitutions in mosaic penicillin-binding protein 2 associated with reduced susceptibility to cefixime in clinical isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoea

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3638-3645

  Takahata, Sho ^a   Senju, Nami ^a   Osaki, Yumi ^a   Yoshida, Takuji ^a   Ida, Takashi ^a  

^a MEIJI SEIKA KAISHA LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CEFIXIME; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTIBUTEN; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; METHIONINE; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2; PORIN; PROLINE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; JAPAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENA GENE; PONA GENE; POR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CEFIXIME; CEPHALOSPORINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PORINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 33750591337     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00626-06     Document Type: Article

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