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Different Vancomycin-Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus Phenotypes Selected from the Same ST100-hVISA Parental Strain.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 2017
Di Gregorio Sabrina, Fernandez Silvina, Cuirolo Arabela, Verlaine Olivier, Amoroso Ana, Mengin-Lecreulx Dominique, Famiglietti Angela, Joris Bernard, Mollerach Marta
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this study is to characterize the factors related to peptidoglycan metabolism in isogenic hVISA/VISA ST100 strains. Recently, we reported the increase in IS256 transposition in invasive hVISA ST100 clinical strains isolated from the same patient (D1 and D2) before and after vancomycin treatment and two laboratory VISA mutants (D23C9 and D2P11) selected from D2 in independent experiments. High...
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