David Stephens

Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University, United States of America

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Infectious Diseases > Antimicrobials & Drug Resistance (since 11 November 2005)

All recent recommendations

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  A predatory mechanism dramatically increases the efficiency of lateral gene transfer in Streptococcus pneumoniae and related commensal species.
  Recommended by David Stephens with Scott T Chancey
  
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  Tolerance to the antimicrobial peptide colistin in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms is linked to metabolically active cells, and depends on the pmr and mexAB-oprM genes.
  Recommended by David Stephens with Scott Chancey
  
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  In vitro infection model characterizing the effect of efflux pump inhibition on prevention of resistance to levofloxacin and ciprofloxacin in Streptococcus pneumoniae.
  Recommended by David Stephens with Scott T Chancey
  
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  Antibiotic-mediated recombination: ciprofloxacin stimulates SOS-independent recombination of divergent sequences in Escherichia coli.
  Recommended by David Stephens
  
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  Complete and SOS-mediated response of Staphylococcus aureus to the antibiotic ciprofloxacin.
  Recommended by David Stephens
  
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  Antibiotic stress induces genetic transformability in the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae.
  Recommended by David Stephens