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Data on drug resistance described by researchers at University of Costa Rica

Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, February 3rd, 2008

In this recent report published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology, researchers in San Jose, Costa Rica conducted a study "To ameliorate the identification, evaluate the diversity, and determine the antimicrobial sensitivity of 19 oxytetracycline-resistant isolates of Stenotrophomonas sp. and Serratia sp. associated with Costa Rican crops. Phenotypical, chemotaxonomical, and molecular data allocated most isolates to the species Sten. maltophilia and Ser. marcescens."

"The API profiles, antimicrobial resistance patterns (ATB system), and BOX-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) genomic fingerprints of isolates of Stenotrophomonas sp. exhibited a higher degree of...

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