Reassessment of the number of auxiliary genes essential for expression of high-level methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.

doi:10.1128/AAC.38.11.2590

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Reassessment of the number of auxiliary genes essential for expression of high-level methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Nov 1994

de Lencastre H, Tomasz A

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A new transposon library constructed in the background of the highly and homogeneously methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain COL yielded 70 independent insertional mutants with reduced levels of antibiotic resistance. Restriction analysis with HindIII, EcoRV, EcoRI, and PstI and then...

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Evaluation Studies as Topic
Methicillin Resistance
Mutagenesis, Insertional
Phenotype
Staphylococcus aureus

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