| Literature DB >> 10877623 |
M J dos Santos Soares1, M C da Silva-Carvalho, B T Ferreira-Carvalho, A M Figueiredo.
Abstract
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections have been increasing at an alarming rate world-wide. MRSA epidemics due to the clonal spread of multi-resistant isolates have been described. In this paper we show the absolute predominance of MRSA strains from the Brazilian epidemic clone in a hospital in the Northeast region of Brazil and the emergence of a vancomycin and teicoplanin heterogeneous resistant subpopulation among these isolates.Entities:
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Year: 2000 PMID: 10877623
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Hosp Infect ISSN: 0195-6701 Impact factor: 3.926