Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolate with high-level methicillin resistance with an lytH mutation caused by IS1182 insertion.

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We previously reported that deficiency of the lytH gene, whose product is homologous to lytic enzymes, caused the elevation of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus strain SR17238, a strain of S. aureus with a low level of resistance to methicillin (low-level MRSA) (J. Bacteriol. 179:6294-6301, 1997). In this study, we demonstrated that deficiency of lytH caused the same phenomenon in four other...

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