The relative expression levels of adeB, ompA, and ompW from A. baumannii were evaluated using 1 µg of purified total RNA as a template for reverse transcription, which was performed using the High-Capacity cDNA Reverse Transcription kit (Invitrogen). Amplification of the target genes was carried out using previously described oligonucleotide primers [46 (link), 47 (link)]. To normalize the gene expression levels, the single copy housekeeping gene rpoB was used [47 (link)]. The qPCR analysis was performed in duplicate using the Platinum® SYBR® Green qPCR SuperMix-UDG kit (Invitrogen) in a StepOne thermocycler (Applied Biosystems, Massachusetts, USA).
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