Article
Mechanisms and fitness costs of tigecycline resistance in Escherichia coli.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Dec 2013
Linkevicius Marius, Sandegren Linus, Andersson Dan I
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: To stepwise select tigecycline-resistant Escherichia coli mutants in vitro, determine the mutation rates, identify the resistance mechanisms, determine the resistance level and cross-resistance to other antibiotic classes, evaluate the fitness costs of tigecycline resistance mechanisms and investigate if the same in vitro-identified target genes were mutated in clinical isolates. METHODS: Spontaneous...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- DNA, Bacterial
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Energy Metabolism
- Escherichia coli
- Humans
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Minocycline
- Mutation
- Mutation Rate
