Earliest observation of the tetracycline destructasetet(X3)

preprint OA: closed
📄 Open PDF View at publisher

Abstract

Tigecycline is an antibiotic of last resort for infections with carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii . Plasmids harboring variants of the tetracycline destructase tet(X) promote rising tigecycline resistance rates. We report the earliest observation of tet(X3) in a clinical strain predating tigecycline’s commercialization, suggesting selective pressures other than tigecycline contributed to its emergence.

My notes (saved in your browser only)

Citation neighborhood (no data yet)

We don't have any in-corpus citations linked to this paper yet. The paper's references may be in our DB but unresolved to ``paper_id`` (resolution happens at ingest when the cited DOI matches a row we already have). Run the cross-source citation reconcile pass to retry.

Source provenance

europepmc
last seen: 2026-05-19T01:45:01.086888+00:00