Cfr-Mediated Linezolid-Resistance among Methicillin-Resistant Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci from Infections of Humans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Cui, Lanqing ^a   Wang, Yang ^b   Li, Yun ^a   He, Tao ^b   Schwarz, Stefan ^c   Ding, Yujing ^a   Shen, Jianzhong ^b   Lv, Yuan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLORFENICOL; GENTAMICIN; GLYCINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; METICILLIN; NUCLEASE S1; OXACILLIN; PHENYLALANINE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN L3; RIBOSOME RNA; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TIAMULIN; TIGECYCLINE; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHINA; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CRF GENE; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS COHNII; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS;

ACETAMIDES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COAGULASE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR TYPING; MUTATION; OXAZOLIDINONES; PLASMIDS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 84874237535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057096     Document Type: Article

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