High-Level Gentamicin Resistance in Enterococcus: Microbiology, Genetic Basis, and Epidemiology

doi:10.1093/clinids/12.4.644

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High-Level Gentamicin Resistance in Enterococcus: Microbiology, Genetic Basis, and Epidemiology

1 Jul 1990

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Antibiotic resistance is an ever-increasing problem in enterococci. These bacteria are remarkable in their ability to acquire and disseminate antibiotic resistance genes by a variety of routes. Since first described in 1979, high-level resistance to gentamicin (MIC, greater than 2,000 micrograms/mL) has spread worldwide and has been responsible for serious infections. Resistance is plasmid-mediated and due to...

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