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Molecular mechanisms of resistance to antibiotics in Bartonella bacilliformis.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Jun 2007
Biswas Silpak, Raoult Didier, Rolain Jean-Marc
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Bartonella bacilliformis is the aetiological agent of Carrion's disease. Although ciprofloxacin, rifampicin and erythromycin have been successfully used in the treatment of the disease, failures and relapses have been reported. The objective of our study was to select in vitro mutants resistant to antibiotics in order to determine the frequency of mutations and to characterize the mechanism of...
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