Premature Termination of MexR Leads to Overexpression of MexAB-OprM Efflux Pump in Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a Tertiary Referral Hospital in India.

OBJECTIVES:The present study was undertaken to investigate the mutations that are present in mexR gene of multidrug resistant (MDR) isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa collected from a tertiary referral hospital of north east India. METHODS:76 MDR clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa were obtained from...

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Main Authors: Debarati Choudhury, Anamika Ghose, Debadatta Dhar Chanda, Anupam Das Talukdar, Manabendra Dutta Choudhury, Deepjyoti Paul, Anand Prakash Maurya, Atanu Chakravarty, Amitabha Bhattacharjee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4750933?pdf=render