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Abstract
Antibiotic resistance is rapidly spreading among bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, an opportunistic bacterial pathogen that causes a variety of diseases in humans. For the last two decades, bacterial multidrug efflux pumps have drawn attention due to their potential association with clinical multidrug resistance. Numerous researchers have demonstrated efflux-mediated resistance in vitro and in vivo and found novel multidrug transporters using advanced genomic information about bacteria. This article aims to provide a concise summary of multidrug efflux pumps and their important clinical implications, focusing on recent findings concerning S. aureus efflux pumps.Entities:
Keywords: MRSA; Staphylococcus aureus; multidrug efflux pumps; multidrug resistance
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Year: 2016 PMID: 26727895 DOI: 10.1007/s12275-016-5159-z
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Microbiol ISSN: 1225-8873 Impact factor: 3.422