Characterization of macrolide efflux pump mef subclasses detected in clinical isolates of Streptococcus pyogenes isolated between 1999 and 2005

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1921-1925

  Blackman Northwood, J ^a   Del Grosso, M ^b   Cossins, L R ^a   Coley, M D ^a   Creti, R ^b   Pantosti, A ^b   Farrell, D J ^a  

^a Quotient Bioresearch Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE EFFLUX PUMP; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CULTURE MEDIUM; MEF(A) GENE; MEF(E) GENE; MEF(I) GENE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 66149137186     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01065-08     Document Type: Article

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