Unstable tandem gene amplification generates heteroresistance (variation in resistance within a population) to colistin in Salmonella enterica

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 274-289

  Hjort, Karin ^a   Nicoloff, Hervé ^a   Andersson, Dan I ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLISTIN; LIPID A; PMRD PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HETERORESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PMRAB GENE; PMRD GENE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 84990248441     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13459     Document Type: Article

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