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IS 5 Element Integration, a Novel Mechanism for Rapid In Vivo Emergence of Tigecycline Nonsusceptibility in Klebsiella pneumoniae
5 Aug 2014
Abstract excerpt
Tigecycline nonsusceptibility is concerning because tigecycline is increasingly relied upon to treat carbapenem- or colistin-resistant organisms. In Enterobacteriaceae, tigecycline nonsusceptibility is mediated by the AcrAB-TolC efflux pump, among others, and pump activity is often a downstream effect of mutations in their transcriptional regulators, cognate repressor genes, or noncoding regions, as demonstrated...
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