Publication Date:
2011-09-24
Description:
The emergence of bacterial antibiotic resistance is a growing problem, yet the variables that influence the rate of emergence of resistance are not well understood. In a microfluidic device designed to mimic naturally occurring bacterial niches, resistance of Escherichia coli to the antibiotic ciprofloxacin developed within 10 hours. Resistance emerged with as few as 100 bacteria in the initial inoculation. Whole-genome sequencing of the resistant organisms revealed that four functional single-nucleotide polymorphisms attained fixation. Knowledge about the rapid emergence of antibiotic resistance in the heterogeneous conditions within the mammalian body may be helpful in understanding the emergence of drug resistance during cancer chemotherapy.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zhang, Qiucen -- Lambert, Guillaume -- Liao, David -- Kim, Hyunsung -- Robin, Kristelle -- Tung, Chih-kuan -- Pourmand, Nader -- Austin, Robert H -- U54CA143803/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Sep 23;333(6050):1764-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1208747.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21940899" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Anti-Bacterial Agents/analysis/*pharmacology
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Ciprofloxacin/analysis/*pharmacology
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DNA Gyrase/genetics/metabolism
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Drug Resistance, Bacterial/*genetics
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Escherichia coli K12/*drug effects/genetics/growth & development/physiology
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Escherichia coli Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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*Evolution, Molecular
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Genes, Bacterial
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Genome, Bacterial
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Membrane Transport Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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Microbial Sensitivity Tests
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Microfluidic Analytical Techniques
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Models, Biological
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Movement
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Mutation, Missense
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*Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
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Repressor Proteins/genetics/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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