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Characterization of clinical isolates of Escherichia coli showing high levels of fluoroquinolone resistance.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Mar 1996
Lehn N, Stower-Hoffmann J, Kott T, Strassner C, Wagner H, Kronke M, Schneider-Brachert W
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During the years 1992 to 1994, an increase in fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli was observed at the Medical Center of the Technical University in Munich, Germany. Nineteen strains were collected and were thus available for further analysis. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis showed clonal diversity in all but two strains. The majority of the patients from whom the strains were isolated had been previously...
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