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Methicillin resistance and vancomycin heteroresistance in Staphylococcus aureus in cystic fibrosis patients.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology - 1 Oct 2010
Cafiso V, Bertuccio T, Spina D, Campanile F, Bongiorno D, Santagati M, Sciacca A, Sciuto C, Stefani S
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are increasingly being reported among cystic fibrosis (CF) populations worldwide. In this paper, we sought to examine at the epidemiology, the molecular characterisation and the antibiotic resistance of MRSA isolates in our cohort of CF patients. All MRSA strains were collected prospectively at the University Hospital of Catania, Italy, during a...
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