Article
Bacterial resistance to the cyclic glycopeptides.
Trends in microbiology - 1 Oct 1994
Shlaes D M, Rice L B
Abstract excerpt
Cyclic-glycopeptide antibiotics, such as vancomycin and teicoplanin, have been almost uniformly active against pathogenic Gram-positive bacteria since their discovery in the 1950s. Resistance is now emerging among enterococci and staphylococci by acquisition of novel genes or by mutation, respect...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Cell Wall
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Enterococcus
- Glycopeptides
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Peptidoglycan
- Staphylococcus