Article
Genetics of antimicrobial resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.
Future microbiology - 1 Jun 2009
Jensen Slade O, Lyon Bruce R
Abstract excerpt
Strains of Staphylococcus aureus that are resistant to multiple antimicrobial compounds, including most available classes of antibiotics and some antiseptics, are a major threat to patient care owing to their stubborn intransigence to chemotherapy and disinfection. This reality has stimulated extensive efforts to understand the genetic nature of the determinants encoding antimicrobial resistance, together with...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Disinfectants
- Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
- Gene Transfer, Horizontal
- Genes, Bacterial
- Humans
- Interspersed Repetitive Sequences
- Mutation
- Staphylococcus aureus