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Mupirocin resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates in a Spanish hospital. Co-application of multiplex PCR assay and conventional microbiology methods.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 Jun 2002
Pérez-Roth E, Claverie-Martín F, Batista N, Moreno A, Méndez-Alvarez S
Abstract excerpt
A total of 1785 Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates were collected in our hospital during 1998 (526), 1999 (564) and 2000 (695). Among them, one hundred and thirty (39, 33 and 58, respectively) were phenotypically assigned as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA); sixteen of these isolates (3, 2 and 11, respectively) were detected as highly mupirocin-methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus...
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