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Pierre-Yves Donnio1, Duarte C Oliveira, Nuno A Faria, Nathalie Wilhelm, Alain Le Coustumier, Herminia de Lencastre.
Abstract
We report a detailed characterization of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus isolates from five French hospitals negative for both the mecA and the ccrAB loci but positive for the IS431::pUB110::IS431::dcs structure, present in some Staphylococcus cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) types. The presence of SCCmec-associated elements suggests that this unusual resistant phenotype is due to a partial excision of SCCmec from epidemic methicillin-resistant S. aureus. The hypothesis of a genetic relatedness is strengthened by common sequence and spa types and similar susceptibility patterns.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16081974 PMCID: PMC1233945 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.8.4191-4193.2005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948