The evolution of a superbug: How Staphylococcus aureus overcomes its unique susceptibility to polyamines

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-3

  Anzaldi, Laura L ^a   Skaar, Eric P ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMMONIA; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ARGININE; ARGININE DEIMINASE; CARBON DIOXIDE; MENAQUINONE; NITRIC OXIDE; ORNITHINE; POLYAMINE; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; EVOLUTION; FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA NOVICIDA; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOMODULATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POLYAMINE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 80053259041     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07808.x     Document Type: Note

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