Reconstruction of the phenotypes of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by replacement of the staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec with a plasmid-borne copy of Staphylococcus sciuri pbpD gene

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 435-441

  Antignac, Aude ^a   Tomasz, Alexander ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFRADINE; CEFTIZOXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 4; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MECA GENE; MECI GENE; MECR GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PBPD GENE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REGULATOR GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCIURI;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; RNA, BACTERIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 59749090484     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01099-08     Document Type: Article

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