| Literature DB >> 23335736 |
Neela Dinesh1, Sreevalli Sharma, Meenakshi Balganesh.
Abstract
We evaluated the contributions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis efflux pumps towards intrinsic resistance to different classes of peptidoglycan synthesis inhibitors (PSI). Our study indicates that the efflux pump knockout strains are more susceptible to PSI than the wild type. Vancomycin and ceftriaxone exhibited up to 3 log increased kill on efflux pump mutants compared to the wild-type strain, strongly suggesting an important role for efflux pumps in the intrinsic resistance of M. tuberculosis to PSI.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23335736 PMCID: PMC3623302 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01957-12
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191