Identification and characterization of an organic solvent tolerance gene in Helicobacter pylori

Helicobacter

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 74-81

  Chiu, Hung Chuan ^a   Lin, Tzu Lung ^a   Wang, Jin Town ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Endoscopy; Glutaraldehyde; n hexane; N phenylnapthylamine

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFOTAXIME; CLARITHROMYCIN; COLISTIN; DNA FRAGMENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; GLUTARALDEHYDE; HEXANE; METRONIDAZOLE; NOVOBIOCIN; ORGANIC SOLVENT; PENICILLIN G; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYMYXIN B; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CELL LYSATE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MUTANT; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HYDROPHOBICITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; DISINFECTANTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENDOSCOPY; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUTARAL; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEXANES; INOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 33846184987     PISSN: 10834389     EISSN: 15235378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-5378.2007.00473.x     Document Type: Article

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