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Integron-bearing methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci in South China, 2001â2004
1 Jan 2008
Abstract excerpt
A total of 53 methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci strains isolated in a hospital in Guangzhou, China, were analyzed to detect class 1 integrons and SCCmec typing. Thirty strains had the class 1 integrase (intI1) gene and 26 strains possessed the 3' conserved region of qacEDelta1-sul1. Four different types of gene cassette arrays were found and a highly prevalent array of dfrA12-orfF-aadA2 gene...
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