Update on macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin, ketolide, and oxazolidinone resistance genes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 282, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 147-159

  Roberts, Marilyn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ketolide; Lincosamide; Macrolide; Oxazolidinone; Resistance; Streptogramin

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; ESTERASE; FLORFENICOL; KETOLIDE; LINCOSAMIDE; LINEZOLID; LYSASE; MACROLIDE; OXAZOLIDINONE DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHORYLASE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; STREPTOGRAMIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSFERASE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL MUTATION; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG RESEARCH; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSPOSON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; KETOLIDES; MACROLIDES; OXAZOLIDINONES; RIBOSOMES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; STREPTOGRAMINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 42449112810     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01145.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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