Tetracycline resistance in Ureaplasma spp. and Mycoplasma hominis: Prevalence in Bordeaux, France, from 1999 to 2002 and description of two tet(M)-positive isolates of M. hominis susceptible to tetracyclines

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 742-744

  Degrange S ^a   Renaudin, H ^a   Charron, A ^a   Bebear C ^a   Bebear C M ^a  

^a Univ Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; MACROLIDE; MINOCYCLINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIBOSOME RNA; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRANCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TET GENE; UREAPLASMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FRANCE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; TETRACYCLINES; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS;

EID: 38649126904     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00960-07     Document Type: Article

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