The highly dynamic nature of bacterial heteroresistance impairs its clinical detection
Bacterial populations can show heteroresistance, where an antibiotic resistant subpopulation is part of a susceptible one. Pereira et al. show in Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica that disk diffusion, a common antibiotic susceptibility test, underestimates the occurrence of heteroresistance i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-05-01
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| Series: | Communications Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02052-x |