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Mechanisms of Resistance

• Mechanisms of Resistance

  AcrAB-TolC Directs Efflux-Mediated Multidrug Resistance in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium DT104

  Sylvie Baucheron, Shaun Tyler, David Boyd, Michael R. Mulvey, Elisabeth Chaslus-Dancla, Axel Cloeckaert
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Emergence and Spread of Three Clonally Related Virulent Isolates of CTX-M-15-Producing Escherichia coli with Variable Resistance to Aminoglycosides and Tetracycline in a French Geriatric Hospital

  Véronique Leflon-Guibout, Cécile Jurand, Stéphane Bonacorsi, Florence Espinasse, Marie Claude Guelfi, Françoise Duportail, Beate Heym, Edouard Bingen, Marie-Hélène Nicolas-Chanoine
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Acquired Bacitracin Resistance in Enterococcus faecalis Is Mediated by an ABC Transporter and a Novel Regulatory Protein, BcrR

  Janet M. Manson, Stefanie Keis, John M. B. Smith, Gregory M. Cook
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Cell Wall Composition and Decreased Autolytic Activity and Lysostaphin Susceptibility of Glycopeptide-Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus

  Jennifer L. Koehl, Arunachalam Muthaiyan, Radheshyam K. Jayaswal, Kerstin Ehlert, Harald Labischinski, Brian J. Wilkinson
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Complete Nucleotide Sequence of a 92-Kilobase Plasmid Harboring the CTX-M-15 Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase Involved in an Outbreak in Long-Term-Care Facilities in Toronto, Canada

  David A. Boyd, Shaun Tyler, Sara Christianson, Allison McGeer, Matthew P. Muller, Barbara M. Willey, Elizabeth Bryce, Michael Gardam, Patrice Nordmann, Michael R. Mulvey

  and Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, Health Canada
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Azole Resistance in Candida glabrata: Coordinate Upregulation of Multidrug Transporters and Evidence for a Pdr1-Like Transcription Factor

  John-Paul Vermitsky, Thomas D. Edlind
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Increasing Prevalence of Quinolone Resistance in Human Nontyphoid Salmonella enterica Isolates Obtained in Spain from 1981 to 2003

  José M. Marimón, María Gomáriz, Carmen Zigorraga, Gustavo Cilla, Emilio Pérez-Trallero
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Variant Salmonella Genomic Island 1 Antibiotic Resistance Gene Cluster Containing a Novel 3′-N-Aminoglycoside Acetyltransferase Gene Cassette, aac(3)-Id, in Salmonella enterica Serovar Newport

  Benoît Doublet, François-Xavier Weill, Laetitia Fabre, Elisabeth Chaslus-Dancla, Axel Cloeckaert
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Fusidic Acid-Resistant Mutants of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Have Low Levels of Heme and a Reduced Rate of Respiration and Are Sensitive to Oxidative Stress

  Mirjana Macvanin, Andras Ballagi, Diarmaid Hughes
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  VanD-Type Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis

  Florence Depardieu, Mathias Kolbert, Hendrik Pruul, Jan Bell, Patrice Courvalin
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Mechanism of Resistance to Several Antimicrobial Agents in Salmonella Clinical Isolates Causing Traveler's Diarrhea

  Roberto Cabrera, Joaquím Ruiz, Francesc Marco, Inés Oliveira, Margarita Arroyo, Ana Aladueña, Miguel A. Usera, M. Teresa Jiménez De Anta, Joaquím Gascón, Jordi Vila
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Mutant Prevention Concentrations for Single-Step Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Mutants of Wild-Type, Efflux-Positive, or ParC or GyrA Mutation-Containing Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates

  Heather J. Smith, Michael Walters, Tamiko Hisanaga, George G. Zhanel, Daryl J. Hoban
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Antibody Mapping of the Linear Epitopes of CMY-2 and SHV-1 β-Lactamases

  Andrea M. Hujer, Christopher R. Bethel, Robert A. Bonomo
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Tetracycline Resistance in Chlamydia suis Mediated by Genomic Islands Inserted into the Chlamydial inv-Like Gene

  Jae Dugan, Daniel D. Rockey, Loren Jones, Arthur A. Andersen
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Mechanisms of Resistance in Multiple-Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia coli Strains of Human, Animal, and Food Origins

  Yolanda Sáenz, Laura Briñas, Elena Domínguez, Joaquim Ruiz, Myriam Zarazaga, Jordi Vila, Carmen Torres
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Prevalence of Mutations within the Quinolone Resistance-Determining Region of gyrA, gyrB, parC, and parE and Association with Antibiotic Resistance in Quinolone-Resistant Salmonella enterica

  Deborah J. Eaves, Luke Randall, Douglas T. Gray, Antony Buckley, Martin J. Woodward, Allan P. White, Laura J. V. Piddock
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Alterations of Penicillin-Binding Proteins 1A, 2X, and 2B in Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates for Which Amoxicillin MICs Are Higher than Penicillin MICs

  K. Kosowska, M. R. Jacobs, S. Bajaksouzian, L. Koeth, P. C. Appelbaum
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Peptide Nucleic Acid-Mediated Competitive PCR Clamping for Detection of Rifampin-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

  Tomotada Iwamoto, Toshiaki Sonobe
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Resistance Phenotypes and Genotypes of Erythromycin-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates in Beijing and Shenyang, China

  Zhao Tiemei, Fang Xiangqun, Liu Youning
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  CARB-9, a Carbenicillinase Encoded in the VCR Region of Vibrio cholerae Non-O1, Non-O139 Belongs to a Family of Cassette-Encoded β-Lactamases

  Alejandro Petroni, Roberto G. Melano, Héctor A. Saka, Alicia Garutti, Laura Mange, Fernando Pasterán, Melina Rapoport, Mariana Miranda, Diego Faccone, Alicia Rossi, Paul S. Hoffman, Marcelo F. Galas
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Relationship between Phenotypic and Genotypic Florfenicol Resistance in Escherichia coli

  Randall S. Singer, Sheila K. Patterson, Anne E. Meier, Jessica K. Gibson, Hannah L. Lee, Carol W. Maddox
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  AmpC β-Lactamase in an Escherichia coli Clinical Isolate Confers Resistance to Expanded-Spectrum Cephalosporins

  Hedi Mammeri, Hasan Nazic, Thierry Naas, Laurent Poirel, Sophie Léotard, Patrice Nordmann
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Novel Resistance-Nodulation-Cell Division Efflux System AdeDE in Acinetobacter Genomic DNA Group 3

  Sze-Lok Chau, Yiu-Wai Chu, Elizabeth T. S. Houang
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Rapid Detection and Sequence-Specific Differentiation of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase GES-2 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Use of a Real-Time PCR Assay

  Gerhard F. Weldhagen