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Fluoroquinolone-resistant Brucella melitensis mutants obtained in vitro.
International journal of antimicrobial agents - 1 Sept 2009
Lázaro Francisco García, Rodríguez-Tarazona R Elisa, García-Rodríguez José Angel, Muñoz-Bellido Juan Luis
Abstract excerpt
Three fluoroquinolone-resistant Brucella melitensis mutants were obtained after successive passages on norfloxacin-containing agar plates. The original strain was B. melitensis biovar 2 ATCC 23457. Mutants emerged at frequencies ranging between 1 x 10(-6) and 3 x 10(-8). The three mutants showed a gyrA Ala71-->Ser mutation as well as insertion of Ala340. No mutations were observed in the parC and gyrB genes....
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