Vancomycin modifies the expression of the agr system in multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Cázares Domínguez, Vicenta ^a   Ochoa, Sara A ^a   Cruz Córdova, Ariadnna ^a   Rodea, Gerardo E ^a   Escalona, Gerardo ^a   Olivares, Alma L ^a   Olivares Trejo, José de Jesús ^b   Velázquez Guadarrama, Norma ^a   Xicohtencatl Cortes, Juan ^a  

^a HOSPITAL INFANTIL DE MÉXICO FEDERICO GÓMEZ   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE LA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Agr system; Antibiotics; Multidrug resistant; Staphylococcus aureus; Vancomycin

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENOMIC DNA; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; OXACILLIN; PROTEIN A; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84931270997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00369     Document Type: Article

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