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Genotyping of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains from two hospitals in Bangalore, South India.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jul 2005
Arakere Gayathri, Nadig Savitha, Swedberg Göte, Macaden Ragini, Amarnath Satish K, Raghunath Dasarathy
Abstract excerpt
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major nosocomial pathogen in India, and up to 70% methicillin resistance has been reported from hospitals in various parts of India. Hospitals use phenotyping for the most part, and molecular genotyping is not done. Here we report on the genotyping of 82 single-patient isolates from two hospitals in Bangalore, South India, for the first time. Most of the...
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