Acquired gentamicin resistance by permeability impairment in Enterococcus faecalis

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3615-3621

  Aslangul, Elisabeth ^a   Massias, Laurent ^b   Meulemans, Alain ^a   Chau, Françoise ^a   Andremont, Antoine ^a   Courvalin, Patrice ^c   Fantin, Bruno ^a   Ruimy, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE MODIFYING ENZYME; AMOXICILLIN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CIPROFLOXACIN; DICYCLOHEXYLCARBODIIMIDE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; L6 RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN; PAROMOMYCIN; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; RESERPINE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA 16S; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERAPAMIL;

ARTICLE; ATPB GENE; ATPE GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG ACCUMULATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION IMMUNOASSAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL GENE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DICYCLOHEXYLCARBODIIMIDE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENTAMICINS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; ISOTOPE LABELING; KINETICS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 33750601324     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00390-06     Document Type: Article

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