| Literature DB >> 19812270 |
Kanokporn Mongkolrattanothai1, Lisa Pumfrey, Peggy Mankin, Barry M Gray.
Abstract
We investigated whether methicillin (meticillin)-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates with low-level mupirocin resistance can serve as recipients of a pSK41-like plasmid conferring high-level mupirocin resistance without substantial fitness cost. Our results suggest that acquisition of the plasmid conferring high-level mupirocin resistance was not necessarily associated with fitness cost in some MRSA recipients with low-level mupirocin resistance.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19812270 PMCID: PMC2786619 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01022-09
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948