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Pandemic fluoroquinolone resistant Escherichia coli clone ST1193 emerged via simultaneous homologous recombinations in 11 gene loci
1 Jul 2019
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Significance Global growth in antibiotic resistance is a major social and health problem. The most common mechanism of high resistance to fluoroquinolones is the sequential acquisition of 3 mutations in 2 DNA topoisomerases, GyrA and ParC. We show that Escherichia coli ST1193 acquired the mutant variants of gyrA and parC not by a conventional stepwise evolution but rather all at once. This was likely a result of...
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