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Ciprofloxacin selects for RNA polymerase mutations with pleiotropic antibiotic resistance effects.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Jan 2017
Pietsch Franziska, Bergman Jessica M, Brandis Gerrit, Marcusson Linda L, Zorzet Anna, Huseby Douglas L, Hughes Diarmaid
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OBJECTIVES: Resistance to the fluoroquinolone drug ciprofloxacin is commonly linked to mutations that alter the drug target or increase drug efflux via the major AcrAB-TolC transporter. Very little is known about other mutations that might also reduce susceptibility to ciprofloxacin. We discovered that an Escherichia coli strain experimentally evolved for resistance to ciprofloxacin had acquired a mutation in...
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