The highly dynamic nature of bacterial heteroresistance impairs its clinical detection

Autor: Cátia Pereira, Jimmy Larsson, Karin Hjort, Johan Elf, Dan I. Andersson
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Communications Biology, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2399-3642
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02052-x
Popis: 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 in clinical isolates.
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