The escalating challenge of vancomycin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

Current Drug Targets - Infectious Disorders

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 273-294

  Pfeltz, R F ^a   Wilkinson, B J ^b  

^a BD Diagnostic Systems   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Staphylococcus aureus; Vancomycin resistant; VISA; VRSA

Indexed keywords

AUTOLYSIN; AVOPARCIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; DAPTOMYCIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; METICILLIN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; ORITAVANCIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; PENICILLIN G; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; POSIZOLID; RANBEZOLID; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE; TEICHOIC ACID; TEICOPLANIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; VIRGINIAMYCIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTHRALGIA; AUTOLYSIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIOSTASIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL WALL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG TOLERANCE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MUSCLE DISEASE; MYALGIA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; REGULON; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STIMULON; STRESS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELL WALL; PHENOTYPE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 8844239117     PISSN: 15680053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1568005043340470     Document Type: Review

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