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The Role of the Staphylococcal VraTSR Regulatory System on Vancomycin Resistance and vanA Operon Expression in Vancomycin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
15 Jan 2014
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Vancomycin is often the preferred treatment for invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. With the increase in incidence of MRSA infections, the use of vancomycin has increased and, as feared, isolates of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) have emerged. VRSA isolates have acquired the entercoccal vanA operon contained on transposon (Tn) 1546 residing on a conjugal...
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