Deletion of TnAbaR23 results in both expected and unexpected antibiogram changes in a multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strain

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1845-1853

  Kochar, Mandira ^a,d   Crosatti, Marialuisa ^a   Harrison, Ewan M ^a   Rieck, Barbara ^a   Chan, Jacqueline ^e   Constantinidou, Chrystala ^e   Pallen, Mark ^e   Ou, Hong Yu ^b   Rajakumara, Kumar ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d THE ENERGY AND RESOURCES INSTITUTE   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING) A; PROTEIN PARC; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TNABAR23 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TRANSPOSON;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84858693485     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.05334-11     Document Type: Article

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