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New approaches to combating antimicrobial drug resistance
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Bristol Centre for Antimicrobial Research and Evaluation, University of Bristol, School of Medical Sciences, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK
Genome Biology 2005, 6:243 doi:10.1186/gb-2005-6-13-243
Published: 23 December 2005Abstract
Recent work shows that the inhibition of the SOS stress response in Escherichia coli reduces the development of resistance to the antibiotics ciprofloxacin and rifampicin. This finding may help in the battle against the rise of resistance to antimicrobial drugs.
