Bacterial responses and genome instability induced by subinhibitory concentrations of antibiotics

Antibiotics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 100-114

  Laureti, Luisa ^a   Matic, Ivan ^a   Gutierrez, Arnaud ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Mutagenesis; Resistance; Stress response

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BIOFILM; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; DNA REPAIR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROCOSM; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84899623491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20796382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics2010100     Document Type: Review

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