Gonococcal resistance to beta-lactams and tetracycline involves mutation in loop 3 of the porin encoded at the penB locus.

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Published in Antimicrob Agents Chemother on November 01, 1998

Authors

M J Gill1, S Simjee, K Al-Hattawi, B D Robertson, C S Easmon, C A Ison

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1: Department of Infection, University of Birmingham Medical School, Birmingham, United Kingdom. m.j.gill@bham.ac.uk

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