Carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae exhibiting clinically undetected amikacin and meropenem heteroresistance leads to treatment failure in a murine model of infection.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2021.105162
Abstract: Heteroresistance is a poorly understood mechanism of resistance which refers to a phenomenon where there are different subpopulations of seemingly isogenic bacteria exhibit a range of susceptibilities to a particular antibiotic. In the current study,… read more here.
Keywords: heteroresistance; treatment failure; pneumoniae; amikacin meropenem ... See more keywords