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Expression of resistance-nodulation-cell-division efflux pumps in commonly used Burkholderia pseudomallei strains and clinical isolates from northern Australia
1 Dec 2008
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Burkholderia pseudomallei is the aetiological agent of melioidosis. Therapy for this disease is lengthy and limited to only a few antibiotics because of this bacterium's intrinsic antibiotic resistance to many clinically useful antibiotics. These properties of B. pseudomallei may partially be due to expression of efflux pumps of the resistance-nodulation-cell-division (RND) family. The patterns and magnitude of...
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