Article
In vivo stability of heterogeneous expression classes in clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant staphylococci.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Nov 1991
Figueiredo A M, Ha E, Kreiswirth B N, de Lencastre H, Noel G J, Senterfit L, Tomasz A
Abstract excerpt
To define the stability of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in vivo, 22 isolates collected at one New York institution in 1989 and 1990 were studied. All 22 belonged to one of two distinct methicillin-resistant phenotypes (class 3 or 2), which were precisely identified as belonging to two distinct genotypes. Genotypic classification was based on restriction analysis of chromosomal DNA with EcoRI...
Topics
- Adult
- Bacteriophage Typing
- Blotting, Southern
- DNA Probes
- DNA, Bacterial
- Deoxyribonuclease EcoRI
- Deoxyribonuclease HindIII
- Genotype
- Humans
- Infant, Newborn
- Methicillin Resistance