N-acetylcysteine-mediated modulation of bacterial antibiotic susceptibility

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3529-3530

  Goswami, Manish ^a   Jawali, Narendra ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CULTURE MEDIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EXPECTORANTS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

EID: 77955362098     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00710-10     Document Type: Letter

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