Practical disk-based method for detection of Escherichia coli clinical isolates producing the fluoroquinolone-modifying enzyme AAC(6′)-Ib-cr

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2378-2379

  Wachino, Jun Ichi ^a   Yamane, Kunikazu ^a   Arakawa, Yoshichika ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); DNA TOPOISOMERASE IV; NORFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AAC(6') IB CR GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; INCUBATION TIME; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLUOROQUINOLONES; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79957529309     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00278-11     Document Type: Letter

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