Increased genome instability in Escherichia coli ion mutants: Relation to emergence of multiple-antibiotic-resistant (Mar) mutants caused by insertion sequence elements and large tandem genomic amplifications

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1293-1303

  Nicoloff, Hervé ^a,b   Perreten, Vincent ^a,c   Levy, Stuart B ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTEASE LA;

EID: 33947225901     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01128-06     Document Type: Article

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