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Fitness and competitive growth advantage of new gentamicin-susceptible MRSA clones spreading in French hospitals
1 Mar 2001
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Since 1991, new epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains characterized by the unexpected reappearance of heterogeneous phenotypic expression of resistance to methicillin and by susceptibility to gentamicin and various other antibiotics (GS-MRSA) have been reported in France. GS-MRSA strains have progressively replaced MRSA clones expressing homogeneous resistance to methicillin and...
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