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Chlorinated phenol-induced physiological antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Nov 2015
Muller Jocelyn Fraga, Ghosh Sudeshna, Ikuma Kaoru, Stevens Ann M, Love Nancy G
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a ubiquitous environmental bacterium and an opportunistic pathogen with the ability to rapidly develop multidrug resistance under selective pressure. Previous work demonstrated that upon exposure to the environmental contaminant pentachlorophenol (PCP), P. aeruginosa PAO1 increases expression of multiple multidrug efflux pumps, including the MexAB-OprM pump. The current study describes...
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