Article
Substrate specificity and energetics of antiseptic and disinfectant resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.
FEMS microbiology letters - 15 Aug 1992
Littlejohn T G, Paulsen I T, Gillespie M T, Tennent J M, Midgley M, Jones I G, Purewal A S, Skurray R A
Abstract excerpt
Clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus carry various antiseptic and disinfectant resistance determinants (qac genes) on a variety of plasmids. The biochemistry and specificity of these resistance genes in S. aureus is the subject of this report. The qac genes were separated into two families...
Topics
- Anti-Infective Agents, Local
- Biological Transport, Active
- Disinfectants
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Ethidium
- Genes, Bacterial
- Humans
- Phenotype
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Substrate Specificity