Title
Frequency of selection of fluoroquinolone-resistant mutants of Neisseria gonorrhoeae exposed to gemifloxacin and four other quinolones
Date Issued
01 January 2001
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Jurado A.
Garcia-Méndez E.
Marco F.
Aguilar L.
Jiménez De Anta M.T.
Vila J.
Hospital ClÃnic
Publisher(s)
Oxford University Press
Abstract
We studied the frequency of mutation of clinical isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (two nalidixic acid susceptible and two nalidixic acid resistant), and the stability of the mutants obtained, in the presence of three different concentrations of five fluoroquinolones. The frequency of mutation was low for all the quinolones. Only one N. gonorrhoeae mutant, obtained with trovafloxacin at 4 × MIC presented a stable increase in the MIC of this quinolone, not attributable to novel mutation(s), both in the gyrA and parC genes, although not showing any increase in the MIC of the other quinolones tested. In summary, gemifloxacin was the only quinolone tested for which resistant mutants were not obtained.
Start page
545
End page
548
Volume
48
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Enfermedades infecciosas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0034752425
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
ISSN of the container
03057453
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