Azithromycin exhibits bactericidal effects on Pseudomonas aeruginosa through interaction with the outer membrane.

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Published in Antimicrob Agents Chemother on April 01, 2005

Authors

Yoshifumi Imamura1, Yasuhito Higashiyama, Kazunori Tomono, Koichi Izumikawa, Katsunori Yanagihara, Hideaki Ohno, Yoshitsugu Miyazaki, Yoichi Hirakata, Yohei Mizuta, Jun-Ichi Kadota, Barbara H Iglewski, Shigeru Kohno

Author Affiliations

1: Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan.

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