Quinolone resistance and ornithine decarboxylation activity in lactose-negative <italic>Escherichia coli</italic>

Quinolone resistance and ornithine decarboxylation activity in lactose-negative <italic>Escherichia coli</italic>

<p>Quinolones and fluoroquinolones are widely used to treat uropathogenic <italic>Escherichia coli</italic> infections. Bacterial resistance to these antimicrobials primarily involves mutations in <italic>gyrA</italic> and <italic>parC</italic> genes. To dat...

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Main Authors: Franciane Gomig, Carolina Weigert Galvão, Denis Leandro de Freitas, Larissa Labas, Rafael Mazer Etto, Luiz Antonio Esmerino, Marcelo Andrade de Lima, Marcia Helena Appel, Silvio Marques Zanata, Maria Berenice Reynaud Steffens, Helena Bonciani Nader, Rafael Bertoni da Silveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia 2015-09-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
Subjects:
ODC
<italic>gyrA</italic>
<italic>parC</italic>
uropathogenic
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