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Jolanta Krzysztoń-Russjan1, Marek Gniadkowski, Hanna Połowniak-Pracka, Elzbieta Hagmajer, Waleria Hryniewicz.
Abstract
The first heterogeneously vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (hVISA) isolates to be identified in Poland were characterized. They were recovered in two Warsaw hospitals and, although in one of these the identification coincided with unsuccessful glycopeptide therapy, the selection conditions and clinical significance of the organisms remain unclear. Molecular typing revealed that the isolates were closely related and belonged to an international methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) clone known as 'Iberian'. The analysis of epidemiologically related MRSA isolates and some archival Polish MRSA isolates of the same clone indicated that the hVISA phenotype has been present in the MRSA populations of some hospitals in Poland since at least 1998.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID： 12461035 DOI： 10.1093/jac/dkf252
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Antimicrob Chemother ISSN： 0305-7453 Impact factor: 5.790