Article
Physical mapping of the mec region of an Australian methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lineage and a closely related American strain.
Journal of general microbiology - 1 Jan 1992
Dubin D T, Chikramane S G, Inglis B, Matthews P R, Stewart P R
Abstract excerpt
Methicillin-resistant (Mcr) staphylococci contain chromosomal DNA that is absent from Mcs cells. This extra DNA harbours the methicillin resistance determinant mec and often other resistance determinants. The mec region can differ substantially in structure among different isolates. We present st...
Topics
- Australia
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Southern
- Cadmium
- Chromosome Deletion
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Bacterial
- DNA Transposable Elements
- DNA, Bacterial
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- London
- Methicillin Resistance
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- New Jersey
- Staphylococcus aureus