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Sally R. Partridge , Stephen M. Kwong , Neville Firth , Slade O. Jensen ·

YOU? · · 2018 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00088-17 · OA: W2885680427

Strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics, particularly those that are multiresistant, are an increasing major health care problem around the world. It is now abundantly clear that both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria are able to meet the evolutionary challenge of combating antimicrobial chemotherapy, often by acquiring preexisting resistance determinants from the bacterial gene pool.