The marC gene of Escherichia coli is not involved in multiple antibiotic resistance

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 382-383

  McDermott, Patrick F ^a,b   McMurry, Laura M ^a   Podglajen, Isabelle ^a,c   Dzink Fox, Joann L ^a,d   Schneiders, Thamarai ^a,e   Draper, Michael P ^a,f   Levy, Stuart B ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f Transcept Pharmaceuticals Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MACROLIDE; MESSENGER RNA; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; LETTER; MARC GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROTYPE; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UPREGULATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OPERON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 37849051911     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00930-07     Document Type: Letter

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