Genome-scale analysis of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 reveals a tradeoff between pathogenesis and drug resistance

Scientific Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Choe, Donghui ^a   Szubin, Richard ^b   Dahesh, Samira ^c   Cho, Suhyung ^a   Nizet, Victor ^c   Palsson, Bernhard ^b,c   Cho, Byung Kwan ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 85041598079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-20661-1     Document Type: Article

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