Antibiotic resistance here to stay? Compensatory mutations restore virulence of resistant bacteria;Antibiotikaresistens här för att stanna? Kompensatoriska mutationer återställer resistenta bakteriers virulens

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Volumn 95, Issue 37, 1998, Pages 3940-3944

  Andersson, Dan I ^a,b   Björkman, Johanna ^a   Hughes, Diarmaid ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MUTATION; REVIEW; VIRULENCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; MUTATION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 17944387827     PISSN: 00237205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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