Bacterial conjugation-based antimicrobial agents

Plasmid

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 38-44

  Filutowicz, Marcin ^a   Burgess, Richard ^b   Gamelli, Richard L ^d   Heinemann, Jack A ^c   Kurenbach, Brigitta ^c   Rakowski, Sheryl A ^a   Shankar, Ravi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Antimicrobials; Bacterial conjugation; Biotherapeutics

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEMATODAL AGENT; DAPTOMYCIN; LINEZOLID; PROBIOTIC AGENT; STREPTOMYCIN; TIGECYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BURN; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSFER; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESEARCH; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; REVIEW; WOUND INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG DESIGN; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 44649198334     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2008.03.004     Document Type: Review

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