Quinolone Resistance in Absence of Selective Pressure: The Experience of a Very Remote Community in the Amazon Forest

BACKGROUND: Quinolones are potent broad-spectrum bactericidal agents increasingly employed also in resource-limited countries. Resistance to quinolones is an increasing problem, known to be strongly associated with quinolone exposure. We report on the emergence of quinolone resistance in a very remo...

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Autores principales: Pallecchi, Lucia, Bartoloni, Alessandro, Riccobono, Eleonora, Fernandez, Connie, Mantella, Antonia, Magnelli, Donata, Mannini, Dario, Strohmeyer, Marianne, Bartalesi, Filippo, Rodriguez, Hugo, Gotuzzo, Eduardo, Rossolini, Gian Maria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3429404/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22953012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001790

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