The cme gene of Clostridium difficile confers multidrug resistance in Enterococcus faecalis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 93-100

  Lebel, Sacha ^a   Bouttier, Sylvie ^a   Lambert, Thierry ^a  

^a Faculte de Pharmacie   (France)

Author keywords

C. Difficile; cme; Efflux; Multidrug resistance

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE DERIVATIVE; ACRIFLAVINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; CETRIMIDE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; FUSIDIC ACID; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; NORFLOXACIN; PROTEIN CME; PROTEIN NORA; RIFAMPICIN; SAFRANIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHIDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENAZINES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNIDENTIFIED SHUTTLE VECTOR;

EID: 4444293722     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.07.022     Document Type: Article

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