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Detection of ciprofloxacin-resistant Yersinia pestis by fluorogenic PCR using the LightCycler.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Oct 2001
Lindler L E, Fan W, Jahan N
Abstract excerpt
We have developed a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based assay to detect ciprofloxacin resistant (Cp(r)) mutants of the biothreat agent Yersinia pestis. We selected spontaneous mutants of the attenuated Y. pestis KIM 5 strain that were resistant to a ciprofloxacin (CIP) concentration of at least 1 microg/ml. DNA sequencing of gyrA encoded by 65 of these mutants revealed that all isolates contained...
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