Molecular mechanisms of virstatin resistance by non-O1/non-O139 strains of Vibrio cholerae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1331-1341

  Shakhnovich, Elizabeth A ^a   Sturtevant, Derek ^a   Mekalanos, John J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHOLERA TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRSTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BUTYRIC ACIDS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTESTINE, SMALL; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAPHTHALENES; NAPHTHALIMIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 36549014037     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05984.x     Document Type: Article

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