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Mechanisms of Resistance

• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Patients with Long-Term Oral Carriage Harbor High-Persister Mutants of Candida albicans

  Michael D. LaFleur, Qingguo Qi, Kim Lewis
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Molecular and Biochemical Characterization of the Natural Chromosome-Encoded Class A β-Lactamase from Pseudomonas luteola

  Benoît Doublet, Frédéric Robin, Isabelle Casin, Laëtitia Fabre, Anne Le Fleche, Richard Bonnet, François-Xavier Weill
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Metronidazole Resistance in Prevotella spp. and Description of a New nim Gene in Prevotella baroniae

  C. Alauzet, F. Mory, C. Teyssier, H. Hallage, J. P. Carlier, G. Grollier, A. Lozniewski
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Antimicrobial Resistance in Haemophilus influenzae Respiratory Tract Isolates in Korea: Results of a Nationwide Acute Respiratory Infections Surveillance

  Songmee Bae, Jaehoon Lee, Jaehwa Lee, Eunah Kim, Sunhwa Lee, Jaeyon Yu, Yeonho Kang
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Allelic Exchange and Mutant Selection Demonstrate that Common Clinical embCAB Gene Mutations Only Modestly Increase Resistance to Ethambutol in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

  Hassan Safi, Robert D. Fleischmann, Scott N. Peterson, Marcus B. Jones, Behnam Jarrahi, David Alland
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Novel Approach for Comparing the Abilities of Quinolones To Restrict the Emergence of Resistant Mutants during Quinolone Exposure

  Muhammad Malik, Gerard Hoatam, Kalyan Chavda, Robert J. Kerns, Karl Drlica
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Transfer of Plasmid-Mediated CTX-M-9 from Salmonella enterica Serotype Virchow to Enterobacteriaceae in Human Flora-Associated Rats Treated with Cefixime

  S. Faure, A. Perrin-Guyomard, J. M. Delmas, P. Chatre, M. Laurentie
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Klebsiella pneumoniae AcrAB Efflux Pump Contributes to Antimicrobial Resistance and Virulence

  Emma Padilla, Enrique Llobet, Antonio Doménech-Sánchez, Luis Martínez-Martínez, José Antonio Bengoechea, Sebastián Albertí
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Φm46.1, the Main Streptococcus pyogenes Element Carrying mef(A) and tet(O) Genes

  Andrea Brenciani, Alessandro Bacciaglia, Carla Vignaroli, Armanda Pugnaloni, Pietro E. Varaldo, Eleonora Giovanetti
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  A Single Mutation in Enzyme I of the Sugar Phosphotransferase System Confers Penicillin Tolerance to Streptococcus gordonii

  A. Bizzini, J. M. Entenza, O. Michielin, I. Arnold, B. Erni, P. Moreillon
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Dispersal of Carbapenemase bla_VIM-1 Gene Associated with Different Tn402 Variants, Mercury Transposons, and Conjugative Plasmids in Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  Marta Tato, Teresa M. Coque, Fernando Baquero, Rafael Cantón
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Novel Ambler Class A Carbapenem-Hydrolyzing β-Lactamase from a Pseudomonas fluorescens Isolate from the Seine River, Paris, France

  Delphine Girlich, Laurent Poirel, Patrice Nordmann
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Screening and Quantification of the Expression of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Acinetobacter baumannii with a Microarray

  Sébastien Coyne, Ghislaine Guigon, Patrice Courvalin, Bruno Périchon
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Molecular Epidemiology of Metallo-β-Lactamase-Producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates from Norway and Sweden Shows Import of International Clones and Local Clonal Expansion

  Ørjan Samuelsen, Mark A. Toleman, Arnfinn Sundsfjord, Johan Rydberg, Truls M. Leegaard, Mats Walder, Astrid Lia, Trond E. Ranheim, Yashas Rajendra, Nils O. Hermansen, Timothy R. Walsh, Christian G. Giske
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  An A643T Mutation in the Transcription Factor Upc2p Causes Constitutive ERG11 Upregulation and Increased Fluconazole Resistance in Candida albicans

  Clemens J. Heilmann, Sabrina Schneider, Katherine S. Barker, P. David Rogers, Joachim Morschhäuser
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Fitness Costs and Stability of a High-Level Ciprofloxacin Resistance Phenotype in Salmonella enterica Serotype Enteritidis: Reduced Infectivity Associated with Decreased Expression of Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 1 Genes

  Edel O'Regan, Teresa Quinn, Jonathan G. Frye, Jean-Marie Pagès, Steffen Porwollik, Paula J. Fedorka-Cray, Michael McClelland, Séamus Fanning
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Novel VIM Metallo-β-Lactamase Variant from Clinical Isolates of Enterobacteriaceae from Algeria

  Frédéric Robin, Nadjet Aggoune-Khinache, Julien Delmas, Malek Naim, Richard Bonnet
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  VIM-19, a Metallo-β-Lactamase with Increased Carbapenemase Activity from Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae

  Jose-Manuel Rodriguez-Martinez, Patrice Nordmann, Nicolas Fortineau, Laurent Poirel
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Molecular Correlates of High-Level Antifolate Resistance in Rwandan Children with Plasmodium falciparum Malaria

  Corine Karema, Mallika Imwong, Caterina I. Fanello, Kasia Stepniewska, Aline Uwimana, Supatchara Nakeesathit, Arjen Dondorp, Nicholas P. Day, Nicholas J. White
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Biologic Activities of the TolC-Like Protein of Neisseria meningitidis as Assessed by Functional Complementation in Escherichia coli

  Nazia Kamal, William M. Shafer
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Unusual Class 1 Integron Configuration Found in Salmonella Genomic Island 2 from Salmonella enterica Serovar Emek

  Neil L. Wilson, Ruth M. Hall
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  BEL-2, an Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase with Increased Activity toward Expanded-Spectrum Cephalosporins in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  Laurent Poirel, Jean-Denis Docquier, Filomena De Luca, Annemie Verlinde, Louis Ide, Gian Maria Rossolini, Patrice Nordmann
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  First Report of Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase-Producing Salmonella enterica Serovar Kentucky Isolated from Poultry in Ireland

  F. Boyle, D. Morris, J. O'Connor, N. DeLappe, J. Ward, M. Cormican
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Characteristics and Population Dynamics of Mosaic penA Allele-Containing Neisseria gonorrhoeae Isolates Collected in Sydney, Australia, in 2007-2008

  John W. Tapsall, Sanghamitra Ray, Athena Limnios
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Nonclonal Emergence of Colistin-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates from Blood Samples in South Korea

  Ji-Yoeun Suh, Jun Seong Son, Doo Ryeon Chung, Kyong Ran Peck, Kwan Soo Ko, Jae-Hoon Song
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Hydrolysis and Inhibition Profiles of β-Lactamases from Molecular Classes A to D with Doripenem, Imipenem, and Meropenem

  Anne Marie Queenan, Wenchi Shang, Robert Flamm, Karen Bush
• Mechanisms of Resistance

  Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Enterobacteriaceae with Decreased Susceptibility to Carbapenems: Results from Large Hospital-Based Surveillance Studies in China

  Qiwen Yang, Hui Wang, Hongli Sun, Hongbin Chen, Yingchun Xu, Minjun Chen