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SCCmec Type IV, PVL-Negative, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Cystic Fibrosis Patients from Brazil.
Current microbiology - 1 Feb 2011
Mimica Marcelo J, Berezin Eitan N, Damaceno Neiva, Carvalho Rozane B
Abstract excerpt
Twenty seven S. aureus isolates were obtained from cystic fibrosis (CF) patients at a tertiary care hospital in Brazil. Nineteen (70.4%) were methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) and eight (29.6%) methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). Of the MRSA isolates, four had SCCmec type III and four had SCCmec type IV. PVL genes were not detected in any of the MSSA or MRSA isolates. New studies are necessary to...
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