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A sequence variant of Staphylococcus hominis with a high prevalence of oxacillin and fluoroquinolone resistance.
Research in microbiology - 1 Nov 2001
Fitzgibbon J E, Nahvi M D, Dubin D T, John J F
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A newly identified subspecies of Staphylococcus hominis, S. hominis subsp. novobiosepticus, was found to be the cause of several invasive infections at a hospital in New Jersey. This subspecies differs from classical S. hominis, now S. hominis subsp. hominis, by the phenotypic characteristics of novobiocin resistance and the inability to ferment trehalose. DNA sequences of segments of 16S rRNA, DNA gyrase (gyrA),...
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