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Acquisition of daptomycin resistance in patients results in decreased virulence in <i>Drosophila</i>
2024-10-07
Abstract excerpt
Staphylococcus aureus can acquire antimicrobial resistance which in turn may affect its pathogenic potential. Using a panel of paired clinical isolates collected before and after daptomycin resistance acquisition, most frequently through single mprF mutation, we show a relationship between increasing daptomycin minimum inhibitory concentration and reduced virulence in a Drosophila systemic infection model. Analy...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 686d6615-a7e2-5f22-9e21-265d0105657c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.10.07.616954
