Conservation of Resistance-Nodulation-Cell Division Efflux Pump-Mediated Antibiotic Resistance in Burkholderia cepacia Complex and Burkholderia pseudomallei Complex Species
Nawarat Somprasong, Jinhee Yi, Carina M. Hall, Jessica R. Webb, Jason W. Sahl, David M. Wagner, Paul Keim, Bart J. Currie, Herbert P. Schweizer
Abstract
Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) and Burkholderia pseudomallei complex (Bpc) species include pathogens that are typically multidrug resistant. Dominant intrinsic and acquired multidrug resistance mechanisms are efflux mediated by pumps of the resistance-nodulation-cell division (RND) family.
Topics & Concepts
Burkholderia pseudomalleiEffluxBurkholderiaBurkholderia cepacia complexBiologyMicrobiologyAntibiotic resistanceAntibioticsMultiple drug resistanceBacteriaGeneticsBurkholderia infections and melioidosisReligion, Society, and Development