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Spontaneous antibiotic resistance mutation associated pleiotropic changes in Escherichia coli O157:H7.
Acta veterinaria Hungarica - 1 Jan 2003
Tóth I, Csík Márta, Emódy L
Abstract excerpt
Besides the well-known O157:H7 clone causing enterohaemorrhagic colitis and haemolytic uraemic syndrome in Europe, Japan and North America, the number of Escherichia coli isolates with non-motile (NM) phenotype has considerably increased. We supposed that spontaneous antibiotic resistance mutation could cause this phenotypic change. To model our hypothesis we isolated rifampicin--(Rif) and ampicillin--(Amp)...
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