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Selection of cefoxitin-resistant bacteroides thetaiotaomicron mutants and mechanisms involved in beta-lactam resistance.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Sept 2002
Fang Hong, Edlund Charlotta, Nord Carl Erik, Hedberg Maria
Abstract excerpt
The beta-lactam antibiotics are the most widely used of all the groups of antimicrobials, but beta-lactam resistance is increasingly common among members of the Bacteroides fragilis group. Three major mechanisms are involved in beta-lactam resistance, and they act together in certain instances. In the present study, 2 resistant mutants (238m and 1186m) of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, obtained from clinical...
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