Editorial: Bad Bugs in the XXIst Century: Resistance Mediated by Multi-Drug Efflux Pumps in Gram-Negative Bacteria

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¹ Department of Physics, University of Cagliari Monserrato, Italy.
² Institute of Biochemistry, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
³ Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University Kingston, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA.

Attilio V Vargiu et al. Front Microbiol. 2016.

. 2016 May 31:7:833.

doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00833. eCollection 2016.

¹ Department of Physics, University of Cagliari Monserrato, Italy.
² Institute of Biochemistry, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
³ Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University Kingston, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA.

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Keywords: antibiotic resistance; bacterial resistance mechanisms; efflux pumps; multi-drug-resistant pathogens; superbugs.

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