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Methicillin resistance study in clinical isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci and determination of their susceptibility to alternative antimicrobial agents.
Journal of applied microbiology - 1 Aug 2001
Bogado I, Sutich E, Krapp A, Marchiaro P, Marzi M, Putero J, Carrillo N
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AIMS: To achieve reliable detection of methicillin resistance in clinical isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci. METHODS AND RESULTS: Strains (105) were evaluated by normatized antimicrobial susceptibility methods, and for the presence of the methicillin resistance-determining mecA gene, using the polymerase chain reaction. Correlation between phenotypic and genotypic methods was obtained in 87.6% of the...
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