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Mechanisms of quinolone action and microbial response.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 May 2003
Hawkey Peter M
Abstract excerpt
Over the years, chromosomal mapping of the bacterial genome of Escherichia coli has demonstrated that many loci are associated with quinolone resistance, which is mainly a result of chromosomal mutation or alteration of the quantity or type of porins in the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. There has been one report of a small and confined episode of plasmid-mediated resistance to fluoroquinolones, which...
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