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Investigating the link between imipenem resistance and biofilm formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Microbial ecology - 1 Jul 2014
Musafer Hadeel K, Kuchma Sherry L, Naimie Amanda A, Schwartzman Joseph D, Al-Mathkhury Harith J Fahad, O'Toole George A
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a ubiquitous environmental organism, is a difficult-to-treat opportunistic pathogen due to its broad-spectrum antibiotic resistance and its ability to form biofilms. In this study, we investigate the link between resistance to a clinically important antibiotic, imipenem, and biofilm formation. First, we observed that the laboratory strain P. aeruginosa PAO1 carrying a mutation in the oprD...
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