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Highly resistant Burkholderia pseudomallei small colony variants isolated in vitro and in experimental melioidosis.
Medical microbiology and immunology - 1 Nov 1999
Häussler S, Rohde M, Steinmetz I
Abstract excerpt
Burkhloderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, a disease in which treatment failures and relapses are common. This study reports on slow growing B. pseudomallei 'small colony variants' (SCVs), isolated either in vitro after exposure to ceftazidime, ciprofloxacin or gentamicin or from the spleen and liver in a mouse model of melioidosis after treatment with ceftazidime. Interestingly, SCVs...
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