| Literature DB >> 8923274 |
C Wildemauwe1, C Godard, R Vanhoof, E V Bossuyt, E Hannecart-Pokorni.
Abstract
A total of 102 epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates collected in 13 Belgian hospitals during two periods (1981-1985 and 1991-1992) were tested for phage-type, for the presence of aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes (AME), and examined by arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction (AP-PCR). All isolates, but five, belonged to a few distinct phage-types of group III. Most isolates expressed a combination of AAC(6')-APH(2") with APH(3')III, and ANT(4',4") or both. Both phage-typing and AME suggested a change in the MRSA population between the two periods but the AP-PCR method revealed only slight differences.Entities:
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Year: 1996 PMID： 8923274 DOI： 10.1016/s0195-6701(96)90066-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Hosp Infect ISSN： 0195-6701 Impact factor: 3.926