Altered growth, pigmentation, and antimicrobial susceptibility properties of Staphylococcus aureus due to loss of the major cold shock gene cspB

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2283-2290

  Duval, Brea D ^a   Mathew, Anselmo ^a   Satola, Sarah W ^a,b   Shafer, William M ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; COLD SHOCK PROTEIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPTOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; METICILLIN; PARAQUAT; TEICOPLANIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CSPB GENE; GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PIGMENTATION; PLASMIDS;

EID: 77952660427     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01786-09     Document Type: Article

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