Article
Genetic characterisation of resistance to metal ions in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: elimination of resistance to cadmium, mercury and tetracycline with loss of methicillin resistance.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Apr 1991
Poston S M, Li Saw Hee F L
Abstract excerpt
Susceptibility to six metal ions--cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), arsenate (Asa), arsenite (Asi), antimony (Sb) and zinc (Zn)--was tested in 23 independent isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) obtained from Guy's Hospital (GH) during 1984-1986, which included 10 isolates of...
Topics
- Bacteriophages
- Cadmium
- DNA, Bacterial
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Humans
- Mercury
- Methicillin
- Methicillin Resistance
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Minocycline
- Phenotype
- R Factors
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Tetracycline
- Tetracycline Resistance
- Transduction, Genetic