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Fitness cost of fluoroquinolone resistance in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Aug 2003
Giraud Etienne, Cloeckaert Axel, Baucheron Sylvie, Mouline Christian, Chaslus-Dancla Elisabeth
Abstract excerpt
High-level fluoroquinolone (FQ) resistance is still infrequent in salmonellae, compared with other pathogenic enterobacteria. Data provided in this work support the hypothesis that the mechanisms that confer high-level FQ resistance on salmonellae have a prohibitive fitness cost and may thus limit the emergence of highly resistant clones. In vitro mutants that were highly resistant to ciprofloxacin (MIC = 8 and...
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