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In vivo selection during pefloxacin therapy of a mutant of Staphylococcus aureus with two mechanisms of fluoroquinolone resistance.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 May 1994
Tankovic J, Desplaces N, Duval J, Courvalin P
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Staphylococcus aureus BM4626 (ciprofloxacin MIC, 0.5 microgram/ml) and BM4627 (ciprofloxacin MIC, 32 microgram/ml) were isolated from the same patient before and during pefloxcin therapy for septic tibial nonunion, respectively. The two strains had similar serotypes and indistinguishable phage types and SmaI-generated restriction fragment length polymorphisms. Portions of the gyrA (codons 60 to 120) and the gyrB...
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