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Borderline susceptibility to antistaphylococcal penicillins is not conferred exclusively by the hyperproduction of beta-lactamase.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Oct 1991
Barg N, Chambers H, Kernodle D
Abstract excerpt
Staphylococcus aureus strains bearing the 17.2-kb beta-lactamase plasmid pBW15 and belonging to phage group 94/96 exhibit borderline susceptibility to the antistaphylococcal penicillins. Borderline susceptibility within phage group 94/96 is thought to be mediated by the hyperproduction of type A staphylococcal beta-lactamase. Evaluation of 84 non-94/96 phage type S. aureus strains that also produced the type A...
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