Nine-Year Surveillance of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Hospital Suggests Instability of mecA DNA Region in an Epidemic Strain
AUTOR(ES)
Donnio, Pierre-Yves
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
The distributions of the antibiotic resistance patterns in a population of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from a teaching hospital were studied over a 9-year period. The results indicate the existence of successive major epidemic methicillin-resistant strains and the emergence of a methicillin-susceptible strain with an unusual resistance pattern. Our findings suggest that this methicillin-susceptible S. aureus strain could be derived from the dominant gentamicin-susceptible methicillin-resistant S. aureus strain with the loss of a 40-kb DNA fragment.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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