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Emergence and spread in French hospitals of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with increasing susceptibility to gentamicin and other antibiotics.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 1999
Lelièvre H, Lina G, Jones M E, Olive C, Forey F, Roussel-Delvallez M, Nicolas-Chanoine M H, Bébéar C M, Jarlier V, Andremont A, Vandenesch F, Etienne J
Abstract excerpt
Oxacillin (methicillin) resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is associated with an increased incidence of resistance to other antibiotics, which has increased since it was first reported in 1969. In 1992 a new phenotype of MRSA arose in France; this was characterized by a heterogeneous expression of resistance to oxacillin and susceptibility to various antibiotics, including gentamicin...
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