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Unusual inducible cross resistance to macrolides, lincosamides, and streptogramins B by methylase production in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 2001
Clarebout G, Nativelle E, Leclercq R
Abstract excerpt
Clinical strains of Staphylococcus aureus UCN7 and UCN8 were inducibly resistant to erythromycin, clindamycin, lincomycin, and quinupristin. This unusual inducible MLS(B) resistance was due to the presence of an erm(A) or an erm(B) gene, which both encode a ribosomal methylase, in S. aureus UCN8 and UCN7, respectively. The inducible cross resistance expressed by S. aureus UCN8 was associated with an 83-bp...
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