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Molecular characterisation of a dominant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clone in a Mexican hospital (1999-2003).
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Jan 2006
Echániz-Aviles G, Velázquez-Meza M E, Aires-de-Sousa M, Morfín-Otero R, Rodríguez-Noriega E, Carnalla-Barajas N, Esparza-Ahumada S, de Lencastre H
Abstract excerpt
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates (n = 216), collected between January 1999 and May 2003 in a tertiary-care university hospital in Guadalajara, Mexico, were characterised by antibiotype, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of SmaI macrorestriction fragments, and hybridisation of ClaI digests with mecA- and Tn554-specific DNA probes. Representatives of the single clonal type found...
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