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Presence of Mobile Tigecycline Resistance Gene <i>tet</i> (X4) in Clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae
9 Feb 2022
Abstract excerpt
Tigecycline, the first member of glycylcycline class antibiotic, is often considered one of the effective antibiotics against multidrug-resistant (MDR) infections. However, the emergence and wide distribution of two novel plasmid-mediated tigecycline resistance genes, tet (X3) and tet (X4), pose a great threat to the clinical use of tigecycline.
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