Smqnr, a new chromosome-carried quinolone resistance gene in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3823-3825

  Shimizu, Kenichiro ^a   Kikuchi, Ken ^a   Sasaki, Takashi ^a   Takahashi, Namiko ^a   Ohtsuka, Masayuki ^a   Ono, Yuka ^a   Hiramatsu, Keiichi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); DNA TOPOISOMERASE IV; GATIFLOXACIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SPARFLOXACIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITAL INFECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R FACTOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SMQNR GENE; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FLUOROQUINOLONES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

EID: 54049116690     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00026-08     Document Type: Article

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