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A widespread single amino acid mutation in AcrA reduces tigecycline susceptibility in Klebsiella pneumoniae.
Microbiology spectrum - 11 Jan 2024
Xu Yingchao, Wang Wenjia, Su Wenya, Wang Mingyu, Xu Hai, Zhang Xuhua, Li Ling
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IMPORTANCE: Tigecycline, a glycecycline antibiotic with broad-spectrum activity against almost all Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, is a highly concerned "last-resort" antibiotic. In addition to plasmid-hosted mobile tet(X) conferring high-level resistance to tigecycline, there are many reports suggesting increased expression of AcrAB-TolC efflux pump leads to tigecycline non-susceptibility. However, the...
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