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Recruitment of the mecA gene homologue of Staphylococcus sciuri into a resistance determinant and expression of the resistant phenotype in Staphylococcus aureus.

Journal of bacteriology - 1 Apr 2001

Wu S W, de Lencastre H, Tomasz A

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Strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have become the most important causative agents of hospital-acquired diseases worldwide. The genetic determinant of resistance, mecA, is not a gene native to S. aureus but was acquired from an extraspecies source by an unknown mechanism. We recently identified a close homologue of this gene in isolates of Staphylococcus sciuri, a taxonomically...

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PMID: 11274099
DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.8.2417-2424.2001
PMCID: PMC95156

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