Evaluation of target specificity of antibacterial agents using Staphylococcus aureus ddlA mutants and D-cycloserine in a silkworm infection model

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4025-4027

  Kurokawa, Kenji ^a,b   Hamamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Matsuo, Miki ^a,d   Nishida, Satoshi ^a,e   Yamane, Noriko ^c   Bok, Luel Lee ^b   Murakami, Kazuhisa ^a,c   Maki, Hideki ^c   Sekimizu, Kazuhisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^c SHIONOGI AND CO LTD   (Japan)

^d JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE RACEMASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CYCLOSERINE; NORFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INHIBITION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SYNTHESIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILKWORM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BOMBYX; CEPHALOSPORINS; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CYCLOSERINE; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION 50; LARVA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 70349154214     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00200-09     Document Type: Article

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