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[Characteristics of penicillinase plasmids from Staphylococcus aureus strains].
Medycyna doswiadczalna i mikrobiologia - 1 Jan 1999
Młynarczyk A, Młynarczyk G, Jeljaszewicz J
Abstract excerpt
Penicillinase plasmids are present in most MRSA strains. They are very varying in their genotype and phenotype they confer. Penicillinase plasmids were transduced from 80 hospital MRSA strains to NCTC 8325 and the phenotype as well as the incompatibility group of plasmid were determined. Resistance to cadmium (high and low level), resistance to organic and nonorganic mercury compounds,...
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