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Changes in the clonal nature and antibiotic resistance profiles of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates associated with spread of the EMRSA-15 clone in a tertiary care Portuguese hospital.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2007
Amorim M L, Faria N A, Oliveira D C, Vasconcelos C, Cabeda J C, Mendes A C, Calado E, Castro A P, Ramos M H, Amorim J M, de Lencastre H
Abstract excerpt
Two hundred eighty methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clinical isolates recovered from a tertiary care hospital in Oporto, Portugal, between 2003 and 2005 were studied by a combination of molecular typing techniques in order to investigate the genetic backgrounds associated with the changes in the resistance phenotypes observed since 2001 and compare them to those previously found in the hospital....
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