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Development of antisense peptide-peptide nucleic acids against fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 2 Aug 2023
Kim Se Kye, Lee Jun Bong, Lee Hyung Tae, Han Dalmuri, Yoon Jang Won
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BACKGROUND: Fluoroquinolones (FQs) are potent and broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to treat MDR bacterial infections, but bacterial resistance to FQs has emerged and spread rapidly around the world. The mechanisms for FQ resistance have been revealed, including one or more mutations in FQ target genes such as DNA gyrase (gyrA) and topoisomerase IV (parC). Because therapeutic treatments for FQ-resistant...
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