Novel ABC transporter gene, vga(C), located on a multiresistance plasmid from a porcine methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 strain

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3589-3591

  Kadlec, Kristina ^a   Schwarz, Stefan ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; AMINO ACID; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE; NEOMYCIN; PIRLIMYCIN; PLEUROMUTILIN; PROTEIN VGA; TETRACYCLINE; TIAMULIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DITERPENES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; KANAMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDES; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOMYCIN; PLASMIDS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOGRAMIN A; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TETRACYCLINES; TRIMETHOPRIM;

EID: 67749139867     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00570-09     Document Type: Article

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