Altered production of penicillin-binding protein 2a can affect phenotypic expression of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.

doi:10.1128/AAC.38.11.2568

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Altered production of penicillin-binding protein 2a can affect phenotypic expression of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Nov 1994

Hackbarth C J, Miick C, Chambers H F

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Altered production of penicillin-binding protein 2a (PBP 2a) may affect the phenotypic expression of resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). COL, an MRSA strain that constitutively produces PBP 2a, was transformed with a recombinant plasmid containing the two beta-lactam...

Topics

Carrier Proteins
Genes, Regulator
Methicillin Resistance
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Penicillins
Phenotype
Staphylococcus aureus

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