JAC Advance Access originally published online on September 12, 2003
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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2003) 52, 732
© 2003 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
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Overstretching the mutant prevention concentration
Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference Laboratory, Health Protection Agency, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5HT, UK
Keywords: resistance, selection pressure, mutation
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Sir,
Smith et al.1 make the good point that mutant prevention concentrations (MPCs, i.e. those drug levels that inhibit first-step mutants, militating against their