Article
Comparative pulsed-field gel electrophoresis typing of gentamicin-resistant and -susceptible methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated in France between 1991 and 1998. Changes in antibiotic susceptibility.
The Journal of hospital infection - 1 Aug 2002
Mangeney N, Drollee K, Cloitre V, Bordes M, Faubert E, Dupeyron C
Abstract excerpt
Using macrorestriction of genomic DNA and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, we examined 504 non-redundant, infection-causing human isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus susceptible (G(S): 238 isolates) or resistant to gentamicin (G(R): 266 isolates). The strains were isolated at Albert Chenevier Hospital (Créteil, France) between 1 January 1991 and 31 December 1998. Their susceptibility to...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Cross Infection
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- France
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Gentamicins
- Humans
- Methicillin Resistance
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Staphylococcal Infections