TelA contributes to the innate resistance of Listeria monocytogenes to nisin and other cell wall-acting antibiotics

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4658-4663

  Collins, Barry ^a   Joyce, Susan ^a,b   Hill, Colin ^a,b   Cotter, Paul D ^b,c   Ross, R Paul ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACITRACIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFUROXIME; GALLIDERMIN; NISIN; TELLURIUM;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; INNATE IMMUNITY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELA GENE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACITRACIN; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCINS; CEFUROXIME; CELL WALL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NISIN; PEPTIDES; TELLURIUM;

EID: 78049264364     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00290-10     Document Type: Article

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