Only for substrate antibiotics are a functional AcrAB-TolC efflux pump and RamA required to select multidrug-resistant Salmonella Typhimurium

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 654-657

  Ricci, Vito ^a   Piddock, Laura J V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AcrB; RamA; Substrate specificity; TolC

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PROTEIN ACRAB; PROTEIN RAMA; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOLC PROTEIN; TRICLOSAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DILUTION; GENE INACTIVATION; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MUTATION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 69049118181     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkp234     Document Type: Letter

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