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First description<br />

Antibiotic efflux<br />

60’: E. coli strains resistant to nalidixic acid (K. Arima)<br />

80’: Tet determinants (S. Levy)<br />

Since early 90’<br />

Several hundreds of characterized or putative efflux systems<br />

reported in the literature…<br />

Definition of efflux systems<br />

Transmembrane proteins able to actively transport diverse<br />

substrate molecules from the cell interior to the external medium<br />

Pumps : functional export systems<br />

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