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In vitro assessment of the further potential for development of fluoroquinolone resistance in Neisseria meningitidis.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 May 2005
Shultz Tiffany R, White Peter A, Tapsall John W
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We examined the potential for the development of fluoroquinolone resistance in Neisseria meningitidis by cultivating two clinical isolates of meningococci in the presence of concentrations of ciprofloxacin at and about the predetermined MIC. The quinolone resistance determining regions (QRDRs) of gyrA and parC of 50 stable quinolone-resistant mutants derived in vitro were sequenced and compared with QRDR...
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