qnr gene nomenclature

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2297-2299

  Jacoby, George ^a   Cattoir, Vincent ^b   Hooper, David ^c   Martínez Martínez, Luis ^d   Nordmann, Patrice ^b   Pascual, Alvaro ^e   Poirel, Laurent ^b   Wang, Minggui ^f  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Associated French National Reference Center for Antibiotic Resistance: Carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae   (France)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^f FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; CODON; GENE; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QNR GENE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; QUINOLONES; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 46249087342     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00147-08     Document Type: Note

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