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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2012

Biochemistry of bacterial multidrug efflux pumps.

Sanath Kumar, Manuel F Varela

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sanath KumarQC Laboratory, Post Harvest Technology Department, Central Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE), Versova, Mumbai 400061 India.
Manuel F VarelaBiology Department, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales New Mexico, 88130, USA.

Funding

NM-INBRE Sequencing and Bioinformatics CoreP20GM103451 · NIGMS · NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY LAS CRUCES · PI Charlotte C. Gard · 2012 to 2026
$61.2M
ZUNI HEALTH INITIATIVE-PILOT STUDYP20RR016480 · NCRR · NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY LAS CRUCES · PI ZHANG, PENG F · 2001 to 2011
$33.7M
NCRR NIH HHS 5P20RR016480-12NCRR NIH HHS P20 RR016480NIGMS NIH HHS 8 P20GM103451-12NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103451
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial pathogens that are multi-drug resistant compromise the effectiveness of treatment when they are the causative agents of infectious disease. These multi-drug resistance mechanisms allow bacteria to survive in the presence of clinically useful antimicrobial agents, thus reducing the efficacy of chemotherapy towards infectious disease. Importantly, active multi-drug efflux is a major mechanism for bacterial pathogen drug resistance. Therefore, because of their overwhelming presence in bacterial pathogens, these active multi-drug efflux mechanisms remain a major area of intense study, so that ultimately measures may be discovered to inhibit these active multi-drug efflux pumps.

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsAntiportersBacteriaBacterial InfectionsDrug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialHumansVirulence FactorsAnti-Bacterial AgentsAntiportersVirulence Factorsantibiotic resistanceantiporterefflux pumpMFSQacTet

Identifiers

PMID22605991
PMCPMC3344227

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