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Multi-drug resistance is now a common feature among <jats:italic>S. marcescens<\/jats:italic> clinical isolates, complicating the efficacy of treatment. Recent reports have attributed antibiotic resistance to altered porin expression as well as perturbation of the intrinsic AmpC beta-lactamase production pathway. In this study, we aimed to genetically correlate the absence of OmpF and OmpC classical porins with increased antibiotic resistance. In generating isogenic porin mutant strains, we avoided incorporating additional resistance through the use of antibiotic cassettes in gene replacement and adopted an alternative strategy in creating clean unmarked mutant strains. We found that lack of OmpF, but not OmpC, significantly increased antibiotic MIC values to the beta-lactam drugs such as ampicillin and cefoxitin as well as to nitrofurantoin. Furthermore, we found that cefoxitin did not induce intrinsic AmpC beta-lactamase production, indicating that the increased MIC values were a result of reduced permeability of cefoxitin due to the lack of OmpF. Genetic deletion of both <jats:italic>ompF<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>ompC<\/jats:italic> did not compromise the integrity of the bacterial cell envelope in optimal growth conditions, suggesting that other outer-membrane porins may function in a compensatory role to facilitate nutrient uptake and cell envelope integrity. 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