S W Wu

Summary

Affiliation: The Rockefeller University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Genetic characterization of resistance to extended-spectrum beta-lactams in Klebsiella oxytoca isolates recovered from patients with septicemia at hospitals in the Stockholm area
    S W Wu
    The Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institute and Karolinska Hospital, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother 43:1294-7. 1999
  2. ncbi Characterization and nucleotide sequence of a Klebsiella oxytoca cryptic plasmid encoding a CMY-type beta-lactamase: confirmation that the plasmid-mediated cephamycinase originated from the Citrobacter freundii AmpC beta-lactamase
    S W Wu
    Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institute and Karolinska Hospital, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother 43:1350-7. 1999
  3. ncbi Molecular cloning and DNA sequencing of the Staphylococcus aureus UDP-N-acetylmuramyl tripeptide synthetase (murE) gene, essential for the optimal expression of methicillin resistance
    A M Ludovice
    Molecular Genetics Unit, Instituto de Technologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
    Microb Drug Resist 4:85-90. 1998
  4. ncbi Mrp--a new auxiliary gene essential for optimal expression of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
    S W Wu
    Laboratory of Microbiology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
    Microb Drug Resist 5:9-18. 1999

Collaborators

  • A M Ludovice
  • H de Lencastre

Detail Information

Publications4

  1. ncbi Genetic characterization of resistance to extended-spectrum beta-lactams in Klebsiella oxytoca isolates recovered from patients with septicemia at hospitals in the Stockholm area
    S W Wu
    The Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institute and Karolinska Hospital, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother 43:1294-7. 1999
    ..The blaOXY-1a was identified in a susceptible strain, and the OXY-1a enzyme differed from OXY-1 by two amino acid residues...
  2. ncbi Characterization and nucleotide sequence of a Klebsiella oxytoca cryptic plasmid encoding a CMY-type beta-lactamase: confirmation that the plasmid-mediated cephamycinase originated from the Citrobacter freundii AmpC beta-lactamase
    S W Wu
    Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institute and Karolinska Hospital, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother 43:1350-7. 1999
    ..Incompatibility of the two plasmids might explain the cryptic phenotype of blaCMY-5 in K. oxytoca through an exclusion effect on pTKH11 by resident plasmid pNBL63...
  3. ncbi Molecular cloning and DNA sequencing of the Staphylococcus aureus UDP-N-acetylmuramyl tripeptide synthetase (murE) gene, essential for the optimal expression of methicillin resistance
    A M Ludovice
    Molecular Genetics Unit, Instituto de Technologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
    Microb Drug Resist 4:85-90. 1998
    ..Cloning and sequencing of the inactivated gene indicates that it is the murE gene of Staphylococcus aureus...
  4. ncbi Mrp--a new auxiliary gene essential for optimal expression of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
    S W Wu
    Laboratory of Microbiology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
    Microb Drug Resist 5:9-18. 1999
    ..Transcriptional analysis demonstrated that the five genes in the cluster were transcribed together...