Linkage of Mercury, Cadmium, and Arsenate and Drug Resistance in Clinical Isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- 1 April 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Vol. 33 (4) , 975-976
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.33.4.975-976.1977
Abstract
Of the 787 isolates, 99.8% were metal resistant, with most (99.5%) showing multiple resistance. Fifty-three percent of the isolates were both metal and drug resistant, whereas only 19% were metal resistant and drug sensitive.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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