Evaluating the Antibiotic Susceptibility of Chlamydia – New Approaches for in Vitro Assays

Pigs are the natural hosts of Chlamydia suis, the only Chlamydia species known to spontaneously acquire homotypic resistance conferred by a class C tetracycline resistance gene. Various susceptibility assays have existed for several years, but there is no widely accepted, standardized assay to deter...

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Main Authors: Hanna Marti, Nicole Borel, Deborah Dean, Cory A. Leonard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01414/full