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Effect of androgens and glucocorticoids on microbial growth and antimicrobial susceptibility.
Current microbiology - 1 Dec 2003
Plotkin Balbina J, Roose Robert J, Erikson Quenby, Viselli Susan M
Abstract excerpt
The effects of androgens, testosterone and dihydrotestosterone (DHT), of an environmental anti-androgen, 2,2-bis(4-chlorophenyl)-1,1-dichloroethylene (DDE), and of glucocorticoids, hydrocortisone and dexamethasone, on growth kinetics and antibiotic susceptibility of E. faecalis, E. coli, P. aeurginosa, and S. aureus were measured. For P. aeurginosa, the presence of either DHT or DDE caused at least a fourfold...
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