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S. pneumoniae can acquire many fluoroquinolone resistance mutations. On this slide we show up to seven that were obtained by repeated challenge of two clinical isolates (15). The point is that as long as we require the bacteria to obtain only one more mutation to be resistant, the bacteria will readily make new fluoroquinolones obsolete. This is why we must force them to attain at least two mutations for resistant growth. |