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Origin and evolution of the AmpC beta-lactamases of Citrobacter freundii.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 May 2002
Barlow Miriam, Hall Barry G
Abstract excerpt
To determine whether the widespread clinical use of beta-lactams has been selective for Citrobacter freundii-derived alleles of plasmid ampC genes, we generated a Bayesian consensus phylogeny of the published ampC sequences and compared the MICs of 16 beta-lactam antibiotics for Escherichia coli strains containing cloned copies of the C. freundii ampC alleles. We found that for the majority of compounds...
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