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Impact of resistance selection and mutant growth fitness on the relative efficacies of streptomycin and levofloxacin for plague therapy.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Aug 2007
Louie Arnold, Deziel Mark R, Liu Weiguo, Drusano George L
Abstract excerpt
Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, is a potential agent of biowarfare and bioterrorism. The aminoglycoside antibiotic streptomycin is the gold standard for treatment. However, this recommendation is based on scant animal and clinical data. We used an in vitro pharmacodynamic infec...
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