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. 2023 Feb 14;13:2639. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-29590-0

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Effect of efflux pumps expression and cephalosporinase activity on susceptibility to carbapenems (imipenem and meropenem) and to DDAC. For the representative short panel strains (n = 13) and 2 reference strains (PAO1 and PA14), MIC variation of the strains to (a) imipenem, (b) meropenem, and (c) DDAC in the absence or presence of PAβN, an efflux pump inhibitor, or cloxacillin, a cephalosporinase inhibitor. A distinction was made between strains with DS to DDAC (DDAC-R strains), carbapenem resistance (Carba-R strains), both phenotypes (Double-R strains), or neither phenotype (Double-S strains). The symbols represent individual MIC values, and the bars represent the average MIC for each strain type. By default, MIC values < 1 were replaced with 0.5. (d) Fold-change of expression of mexA, mexB, oprM, mexE, mexF, and oprN genes compared to PAO1 for three strains expressing VIM-2 carbapenemase.