Antibiotic-induced autoactivation of IS256 in Staphylococcus aureus

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6381-6384

  Schreiber, Franziska ^a   Szekat, Christiane ^a   Josten, Michaele ^a   Sahl, Hans Georg ^a   Bierbaum, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; LINEZOLID; SPECTINOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; HEAT STRESS; IS 256 GENE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VANCOMYCIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WILD TYPE;

ACETAMIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; OXAZOLIDINONES; SPECTINOMYCIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84887448976     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01585-13     Document Type: Article

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