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The secondary resistome of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae.
Scientific reports - 15 Feb 2017
Jana Bimal, Cain Amy K, Doerrler William T, Boinett Christine J, Fookes Maria C, Parkhill Julian, Guardabassi Luca
Abstract excerpt
Klebsiella pneumoniae causes severe lung and bloodstream infections that are difficult to treat due to multidrug resistance. We hypothesized that antimicrobial resistance can be reversed by targeting chromosomal non-essential genes that are not responsible for acquired resistance but essential for resistant bacteria under therapeutic concentrations of antimicrobials. Conditional essentiality of individual genes...
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