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Occurrence of quinolone resistance in Staphylococcus aureus from nosocomial infection.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Dec 1992
Witte W, Grimm H
Abstract excerpt
Among 63 Staphylococcus aureus isolates (one isolate per one patient) counted from infections (from August to November 1991) in hospital T., eight exhibited resistance to fluoroquinolones. Seven of these quinolone-resistant isolates were multiply- and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (QR-MRSA). The results of phage-, plasmid- and genotyping (pulsed field electrophoresis) revealed that six different strain-clones...
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