Multidrug resistance pump

A multidrug resistance (MDR) pump, or multidrug efflux pump, is any efflux pump which is able to expel multiple different categories of antimicrobial drugs. Multidrug resistance pumps can thus confer multiple drug resistance to a microbe and are of interest to the field of microbiology as one of the mechanisms by which microbes develop antimicrobial resistance.

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