High prevalence of mutators among Enterobacter cloacae nosocomial isolates and their association with antimicrobial resistance and repetitive detection A. Matsushima, S. Takakura, N. Fujihara, T. Saito, Y. Ito, Y. Iinuma, S. Ichiyama Clinical Microbiology and Infection Volume 16, Issue 9, Pages 1488-1493 (September 2010) DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03145.x Copyright © 2010 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions
FIG. 1 Distribution of the mutation frequencies of 59 Enterobacter cloacae clinical isolates. Range, 5.8 × 10−9 to 8.0 × 10−6; median, 5.0 ×10−8. *Mutation frequency of E. cloacae ATCC 13047 (8.0 ×10−9). **Mutation frequency of Escherichia coli ATCC 25922 (1.7 ×10−8). Clinical Microbiology and Infection 2010 16, 1488-1493DOI: (10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03145.x) Copyright © 2010 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions
FIG. 2 Distribution of the mutation frequencies within the clonal groups and singletons. Filled circles: strong mutators. Open circles: weak mutators. Crosses: non-mutators. Clinical Microbiology and Infection 2010 16, 1488-1493DOI: (10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03145.x) Copyright © 2010 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions