SmaI typeability and tetracycline susceptibility and resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes isolates with efflux-mediated erythromycin resistance [4]

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3042-3043

  Bacciaglia, A ^a   Brenciani, A ^a   Varaldo, P E ^a   Giovanetti, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PROTEIN SMAI; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSPOSON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ERYTHROMYCIN; HUMANS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 34547644120     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00249-07     Document Type: Letter

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