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Fitness of in vitro selected Pseudomonas aeruginosa nalB and nfxB multidrug resistant mutants.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Nov 2002
Sánchez Patricia, Linares Juan Francisco, Ruiz-Díez Beatriz, Campanario Ester, Navas Alfonso, Baquero Fernando, Martínez José L
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Overproduction of multidrug resistance (MDR) efflux pumps is involved in the resistance to a wide range of compounds in bacteria. These determinants extrude antibiotics, but also bacterial metabolites like quorum-sensing signals. Non-regulated extrusion of bacterial metabolites might produce a me...
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