Abstract

Bacterial resistance to aminoglycoside antibiotics occurs by a variety of mechanisms. In clinical situations the most common mechanism is plasmid-determined modification of the drug that leads to a block of transport of the antibiotic into the cell. Amikacin, a semisynthetic aminoglycoside, is effective against a number of resistant strains because it has fewer sites of modification.

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