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The Inactivation of intrinsic antibiotic resistance determinants widens the mutant selection window for quinolones in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Dec 2012
García-León Guillermo, Sánchez María B, Martínez José L
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We have determined that the mutational inactivation of the SmeDEF efflux pump and the SmQnr quinolone resistance protein widens the mutant selection windows for ofloxacin and ciprofloxacin of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia by reducing their MICs. Resistant mutants arising from a strain lacking SmeDEF and SmQnr presented levels of susceptibility similar to those of the wild-type strain. This indicates that...
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