Mechanism of antibiotic efflux in gram-negative bacteria

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages

  Zgurskaya, Helen I ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Ganesh ^a   Tikhonova, Elena B ^a   Lau, Sze Y ^a   Stratton, Kelly L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gram Negative Bacteria; Mechanism; Microbiology; Multidrug Efflux Transporters; Review

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN P; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS;

EID: 4344652234     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/1134     Document Type: Review

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