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Reduced Vancomycin Susceptibility Found in Methicillin-Resistant and Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus Clinical Isolates in Northeast China
12 Sept 2013
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BACKGROUND: Strains of Staphylococcus aureus with an intermediate level of resistance to vancomycin (vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus, or VISA) or which contain subpopulations of mixed susceptibility (heterogeneous VISA, or hVISA) have been reported worldwide. However, the prevalence of VISA and hVISA infections in Northeast China is unknown. From 2007 through 2010, we surveyed the vancomycin susceptibility of...
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