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Influence of Antibiotics on the Cell Surface of Escherichia coli

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The Influence of Antibiotics on the Host-Parasite Relationship III

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Many studies have shown that various host-parasite interaction processes like adherence, phagocytosis, serum resistance, or immune response to outer membrane (OM) components can be altered by preincubation of bacteria in sub-minimal inhibitory concentrations (sub-MICs) of antibiotics [6, 18, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30]. Though all these effects appear to be cell surface mediated, only few authors have investigated the influence of antibiotics on cell surface properties. James [12] reported that mecillinam selectively increased the formation of certain OM proteins. Kadurugamuwa et al. [13, 14] and Taylor et al. [30] observed an influence of antibiotics on the production of capsular polysaccharides in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae.

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  1. Abteilung für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Immunologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 4630, Bochum, Federal Republic of Germany

    H. Leying, S. Suerbaum & W. Opferkuch

  2. Institut für Chemotherapie, Pharma-Forschungszentrum, Bayer AG, 5600, Wuppertal 1, Federal Republic of Germany

    H.-P. Kroll

  3. Institut für Mikrobiologie, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, 6100, Darmstadt, Federal Republic of Germany

    J. Gmeiner

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  1. Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie der Medizinischen Fakultät der RWTH Aachen, Pauwelsstrasse, D-5100, Aachen, Germany

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Leying, H., Suerbaum, S., Kroll, HP., Gmeiner, J., Opferkuch, W. (1989). Influence of Antibiotics on the Cell Surface of Escherichia coli . In: Gillissen, G., Opferkuch, W., Peters, G., Pulverer, G. (eds) The Influence of Antibiotics on the Host-Parasite Relationship III. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73653-7_3

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