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Development of Antibiotic Resistance during Simulated Treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Chemostats.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Feng Yanfang, Hodiamont Caspar J, van Hest Reinier M, Brul Stanley, Schultsz Constance, Ter Kuile Benno H
Abstract excerpt
During treatment of infections with antibiotics in critically ill patients in the intensive care resistance often develops. This study aims to establish whether under those conditions this resistance can develop de novo or that genetic exchange between bacteria is by necessity involved. Chemostat cultures of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were exposed to treatment regimes with ceftazidime and meropenem that simulated...
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