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Mechanism of vancomycin resistance in methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Polish journal of microbiology - 1 Jan 2004
Sieradzki Krzysztof, Markiewicz Zdzisław
Abstract excerpt
A collection of laboratory mutants and clinical MRSA strains, additionally exhibiting resistance to glycopeptide antibiotics, was studied in detail. The nature of resistance to glycopeptides was found to be different from that existing in vancomycin resistant (VR) enterococci. The mutants produced abnormal murein in which the level of highly oligomeric muropeptides was drastically reduced. Biochemical and genetic...
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