Expression of multidrug efflux pump genes acrAB-tolC, mdfA, and norE in Escherichia coli clinical isolates as a function of fluoroquinolone and multidrug resistance

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 921-924

  Swick, Michelle C ^a   Morgan Linnell, Sonia K ^a,b   Carlson, Kimberly M ^a   Zechiedrich, Lynn ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRAB TOLC PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MDFA PROTEIN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; NORE PROTEIN; NORFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TOLC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLUOROQUINOLONES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS;

EID: 78751683371     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00996-10     Document Type: Article

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