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quat resistance

Steven Projan PROJANS at war.wyeth.com
Tue Dec 29 08:20:10 EST 1998


In general such resistance is due to efflux.  More work has been in gram postives (check out RA Skurray) although a paper in 1997 by Turner et al (in Antimcirobial Agents and Chemotherapy) described TehA in E. coli involved in resistance to quats.

Steve projan

>>> phil <jorge2 at earthlink.net> 12/29 10:17 AM >>>
Looking for some references re. bacterial (esp. Gram negative)
resistance to quaternary ammonium compounds.
Any citations you could provide?


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 



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