Identification and characterization of a bacitracin resistance network in Enterococcus faecalis

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1425-1433

  Gebhard, Susanne ^a   Fang, Chong ^a   Shaaly, Aishath ^b   Leslie, David J ^b   Weimar, Marion R ^b   Kalamorz, Falk ^b,c   Carne, Alan ^b   Cook, Gregory M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ALKANAL MONOOXYGENASE (FMN LINKED); AMPICILLIN; BACITRACIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; GALLIDERMIN; LANTIBIOTIC; LINCOMYCIN; MERSACIDIN; NISIN; PENICILLIN G; PROTEOME; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISK DIFFUSION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GROWTH INHIBITION; INVERTED REPEAT; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; WILD TYPE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACITRACIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEOME;

EID: 84896892824     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.02111-13     Document Type: Article

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