Novel determinants of antibiotic resistance: Identification of mutated Loci in Highly methicillin-resistant subpopulations of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Dordel, Janina ^a   Kim, Choonkeun ^b   Chung, Marilyn ^b   de la Gándara, María Pardos ^b   Holden, Matthew T J ^a   Parkhill, Julian ^a   de Lencastre, Hermínia ^b,c   Bentley, Stephen D ^a,d   Tomasz, Alexander ^b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PBP2A PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84899784539     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01000-13     Document Type: Article

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