Plasmid-encoded multidrug efflux pump conferring resistance to olaquindox in Escherichia coli

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 3332-3337

  Hansen, Lars Hestbjerg ^a   Johannesen, Elsebetta ^a   Burmølle, Mette ^a   Sørensen, Anders Hay ^a,b   Sørensen, Søren J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OLAQUINDOX;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DIVISION; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OQXA GENE; OQXB GENE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUMP; SPECIES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CULTURE MEDIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ETHIDIUM; HYDROGEN; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PLASMIDS; QUINOXALINES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 4344614478     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.9.3332-3337.2004     Document Type: Article

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