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Role of a sodium-dependent symporter homologue in the thermosensitivity of beta-lactam antibiotic resistance and cell wall composition in Staphylococcus aureus.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Feb 2008
Sieradzki Krzysztof, Chung Marilyn, Tomasz Alexander
Abstract excerpt
Expression of high-level beta-lactam resistance is known to be thermosensitive in many methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains, including strain COL, in which the high methicillin MIC for cultures grown at 37 degrees C (800 microg/ml) was reduced to 12 microg/ml at 42 degrees C. COL grew faster at 42 degrees C than at 37 degrees C and at the higher temperature produced cell walls of abnormal...
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