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Sequential mutations of gyrA in Escherichia coli associated with quinolone therapy.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Dec 1995
Truong Q C, Ouabdesselam S, Hooper D C, Moreau N J, Soussy C J
Abstract excerpt
A clinical isolate of Escherichia coli HM73 (MIC norfloxacin 2 mg/L) was isolated during norfloxacin therapy from an urinary tract infection in a patient who had been previously treated with pipemidic acid and infected by E. coli HM72 (norfloxacin 0.25), known to harbour a substitution Ser 83-->Leu in the gyrA gene. No difference in accumulation of norfloxacin was found between the two strains. DNA gyrases were...
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