The uropathogenic species Staphylococcus saprophyticus tolerates a high concentration of d-serine

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 299, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-64

  Sakinç, Türkân ^a   Michalski, Nadine ^a   Kleine, Britta ^a   Gatermann, Sören G ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

D serine; DsdA; Staphylococcus saprophyticus

Indexed keywords

DEXTRO SERINE; DEXTRO SERINE DEAMINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS XYLOSUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYDRO-LYASES; SERINE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS COHNII; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS XYLOSUS;

EID: 69949136764     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01731.x     Document Type: Article

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