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Appearance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) sensitive to gentamicin in a hospital with a previous endemic distinct MRSA.
European journal of epidemiology - 1 Jan 2001
Sopena N, Garcia-Nuñez M, Prats R, Pedro-Botet M L, Elia S, Nieto J, Sabrià M
Abstract excerpt
Since 1990 a clone of gentamicin and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has remained endemic in our hospital, but since January 1996 a gentamicin-sensitive strain has progressively replaced the previous clone. We characterized the phenotypic and molecular pattern of the MRSA strains isolated in our hospital in 1996 and compared prospectively the epidemiological, clinical and evolutionary...
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