Impaired virulence and in vivo fitness of colistin-resistant acinetobacter baumannii

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 203, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 545-548

  López Rojas, Rafael ^a   Domínguez Herrera, Juan ^a   McConnell, Michael J ^a   Docobo Peréz, Fernando ^a   Smani, Younes ^a   Fernández Reyes, María ^b   Rivas, Luis ^b   Pachón, Jerónimo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLISTIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PMRA GENE; PMRB GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONADALES; SEPSIS;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLISTIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; PERITONITIS; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 79751501298     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiq086     Document Type: Article

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