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Efflux mediated colistin resistance in diverse clones of Klebsiella pneumoniae from aquatic environment.
Microbial pathogenesis - 1 Jan 2017
Singh Santosh Kumar, Mishra Mitali, Sahoo Minu, Patole Shashank, Mohapatra Harapriya
Abstract excerpt
The peptide drug colistin is commonly used to treat carbapenem resistant gram negative bacterial infections. In the present study, we report efflux mediated colistin resistance in multidrug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates belonging to ST200 and ST1296, isolated from a fresh water environment. The isolates exhibited intermediate resistance to human serum, possessed Type 1 fimbriae and harbored blaSHV-34...
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