A novel FexA variant from a canine Staphylococcus pseudintermedius isolate that does not confer florfenicol resistance

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5763-5766

  Gómez Sanz, Elena ^a   Kadlec, Kristina ^b   Feßler, Andrea T ^b   Zarazaga, Myriam ^a   Torres, Carmen ^a   Schwarz, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA   (Spain)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; FLORFENICOL; GLYCINE; VALINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DOG; FEXA GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PSEUDINTERMEDIUS; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DOGS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; THIAMPHENICOL;

EID: 84885906775     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00948-13     Document Type: Article

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