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Topic: I have drug resistant genes - Gentamicin. What does this mean?

Haley
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 22008

posted

I tested positive for aacA, aphD.

I did find this link

http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/44/6/795

which says that these are gentamicin-resistant

Can someone translate that for me? My doc is too busy to get back to me.

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks

[ 03-11-2010, 02:30 PM: Message edited by: Haley ]

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Haley
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posted

Has anyone had a test like this that showed drug resistance?

This actually came from a stool sample.

Anyone?

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Lymetoo
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posted

Never heard of it myself. But gentamycin is not a very safe drug anyway! No loss there!

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