The highly dynamic nature of bacterial heteroresistance impairs its clinical detection

oleh: Cátia Pereira, Jimmy Larsson, Karin Hjort, Johan Elf, Dan I. Andersson

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-05-01

Deskripsi

Bacterial populations can show heteroresistance, where an antibiotic resistant subpopulation is part of a susceptible one. Pereira et al. show in Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica that disk diffusion, a common antibiotic susceptibility test, underestimates the occurrence of heteroresistance in clinical isolates.