Research conducted at University of Birmingham has provided new information about pneumonia.

Biotech Week | July 30, 2008 | Copyright

"One way to combat multidrug-resistant microorganisms is the use of efflux pump inhibitors (EPIs). Spontaneous mutants resistant to the EPI reserpine selected from Streptococcus pneumoniae NCTC 7465 and R6 at a frequency suggestive of a single mutational event were also multidrug resistant," investigators in Birmingham, the United Kingdom report (see also Pneumonia).

"No mutations in pmrA (which encodes the efflux protein PmrA) were detected, and the expression of pmrA was unaltered in all mutants. In the reserpine-resistant multidrug-resistant mutants, the ...

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