Genetic resistance elements carrying mef subclasses other than mef(A) in Streptococcus pyogenes

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3226-3230

  Del Grosso, Maria ^a   Camilli, Romina ^a   Barbabella, Giada ^a   Northwood, John Blackman ^b   Farrell, David J ^b,c   Pantosti, Annalisa ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b Quotient Biosearch Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c JMI LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CATQ PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; MEF PROTEIN; MEF(B) PROTEIN; MEF(E) PROTEIN; MEF(I) PROTEIN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; TET(M) PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; HETEROZYGOTE; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 79959251893     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01713-10     Document Type: Article

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