Mei Zhu

Persistence of Antibiotic Resistance and Capsule in E. coli B23 after Removal from Sublethal Kanamycin Treatment

Kanamycin belongs to the aminoglycoside class of bacteriostatic antibiotics that inhibits protein synthesis. Previous studies have shown that treatment with sublethal levels of kanamycin causes the extracellular polysaccharide capsule in E. coli B23 to increase in size, and poten...