Clinical Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates in the United States with resistance to azithromycin possess mutations in All 23S rRNA alleles and the mtrR coding region

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 425-427

  Wu, Abel ^a   Buono, Sean ^a   Katz, Kenneth A ^b   Pandori, Mark W ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 23S;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE; GENE LOCUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MTRR GENE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UNITED STATES;

NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 80052252879     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2010.0199     Document Type: Article

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