High-level fluoroquinolone resistance in ophthalmic clinical isolates belonging to the species Corynebacterium macginleyi

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 527-532

  Eguchi, Hiroshi ^a   Kuwahara, Tomomi ^a   Miyamoto, Tatsuro ^a   Nakayama Imaohji, Haruyuki ^a   Ichimura, Minoru ^a   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^b   Shiota, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; NORFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIBOSOME RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM MACGINLEYI; CORYNEBACTERIUM MASTITIDIS; DRY EYE; EYE INFECTION; GENE MUTATION; GYRA GENE; MUCOSA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RETINA DETACHMENT; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN FLORA; TAXONOMY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA GYRASE; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FLUOROQUINOLONES; GENES, RRNA; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM ACCOLENS; CORYNEBACTERIUM MACGINLEYI; CORYNEBACTERIUM MASTITIDIS;

EID: 38949191312     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01741-07     Document Type: Article

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