General mechanisms of resistance to antibiotics.

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Summary

Resistance to antimicrobial agents may result from intrinsic properties of organisms, through mutation and through plasmid- and transposon-specified genes, and from mutants that arise during antimicrobial therapy and are defective in energy-generation systems.

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1988-07-01
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Antibiotics, Antibiotic resistance, Resistance (ecology), Microbiology, Medicine

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