In vivo mutations of thymidylate synthase (Encoded by thyA) are responsible for thymidine dependency in clinical small-colony variants of Staphylococcus aureus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 834-842

  Chatterjee, Indranil ^a   Kriegeskorte, Andre ^b   Fischer, Andreas ^b   Deiwick, Susanne ^b   Theimann, Nadine ^b   Proctor, Richard A ^c   Peters, Georg ^b   Herrmann, Mathias ^a   Kahl, Barbara C ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; TETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID; THYMIDINE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

AGR GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CITB GENE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HLA GENE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUPC GENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPA GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THYA GENE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THYMIDINE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAWBERRY CRINKLE VIRUS;

EID: 38649119459     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00912-07     Document Type: Article

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