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Plasmid‐mediated resistance to protein biosynthesis inhibitors in staphylococci
1 Dec 2011
Abstract excerpt
Protein biosynthesis inhibitors (PBIs) represent powerful antimicrobial agents for the control of bacterial infections. In staphylococci, numerous resistance genes are known to be involved in resistance to PBIs, most of which mediate resistance to a specific class/subclass of PBIs, though a few genes do confer a multidrug resistance phenotype-up to five classes/subclasses of PBIs. Plasmids play a key role in the...
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