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Biological cost of rifampin resistance from the perspective of Staphylococcus aureus.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Nov 2002
Wichelhaus Thomas A, Böddinghaus Boris, Besier Silke, Schäfer Volker, Brade Volker, Ludwig Albrecht
Abstract excerpt
Resistance determinants that interfere with normal physiological processes in the bacterial cell usually cause a reduction in biological fitness. Fitness assays revealed that 17 of 18 in vitro-selected chromosomal mutations within the rpoB gene accounting for rifampin resistance in Staphylococcus...
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