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Trade-offs between drug toxicity and benefit in the multi-antibiotic resistance system underlie optimal growth of E. coli

BACKGROUND: Efflux is a widespread mechanism of reversible drug resistance in bacteria that can be triggered by environmental stressors, including many classes of drugs. While such chemicals when used alone are typically toxic to the cell, they can also induce the efflux of a broad range of agents a...

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Autores principales: Wood, Kevin B, Cluzel, Philippe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3462682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22631053
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-0509-6-48