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is one of the most important opportunistic pathogens involved in nosocomial infections, cystic fibrosis patients included. Hospital isolates frequently present multidrug-resistance (MDR) phenotypes as the consequence of constant antibiotic selective pressure. The kinetics of emergence of MDR mutants under antibiotic selective pressure indicated that long-term incubation in the presence of the bacteriostatic antibiotic tetracycline increases the mutation rate per cell per day of PAO1 by several orders of magnitude. The tetracycline-resistant mutants obtained were stable, showed decreased susceptibility to antibiotics belonging to different structural families, and contained an outer-membrane protein not present in the wild-type strain PAO1. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that incubation in the presence of tetracycline favours the emergence of MDR mutants in . The results are relevant for understanding the rapid emergence of antibiotic-resistant mutants among bacterial populations during infections. Their relationship to other models of increased mutagenesis under stress is discussed with respect to the adaptive mutation phenomenon.

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