Antibiotic selection leads to inadvertent selection of nfxC-type phenotypic mutants in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 461-464

  Mooij, Marlies J ^a   O'Connor, Hazel F ^a   Tian, Zhe Xian ^a,b   Wang, Yi Ping ^b   Adams, Claire ^a   Morrissey, John P ^a   O'Gara, Fergal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 78649729735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00175.x     Document Type: Article

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