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Prevalence of blaZ gene types and the cefazolin inoculum effect among methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus blood isolates and their association with multilocus sequence types and clinical outcome.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology - 1 Feb 2015
Chong Y P, Park S-J, Kim E S, Bang K-M, Kim M-N, Kim S-H, Lee S-O, Choi S-H, Jeong J-Y, Woo J H, Kim Y S
Abstract excerpt
Cefazolin treatment failures have been described for bacteraemia caused by methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) with type A β-lactamase and inoculum effect (InE). We investigated the prevalence of blaZ (β-lactamase) gene types and a cefazolin InE among MSSA blood isolates in South Korea and evaluated their association with specific genotypes. The clinical impact of the cefazolin InE was also...
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