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Correlation between antibiotic resistance, phage-like particle presence, and virulence in Rhodococcus equi human isolates.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Feb 1994
Nordmann P, Keller M, Espinasse F, Ronco E
Abstract excerpt
Rhodococcus equi is a gram-positive coccobacillus that appears to be emerging as a pulmonary pathogen in AIDS patients. In four human clinical isolates, two antibiotic resistance phenotypes were found to coexist: one beta-lactam resistant and the other beta-lactam susceptible. In vitro, beta-lactam-resistant mutants were obtained at a frequency of 1 x 10(-5) to 5 x 10(-5) from beta-lactam-susceptible strains on...
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