Unrelatedness of multiply resistant Staphylococcus aureus with resistance to methicillin and to quinolones (QR-MRSA) as evident from SmaI-digestion patterns of genomic DNA.

Abstract excerpt

Methicillin-resistant S. aureus with quinolone-resistance (QR-MRSA) isolated in Germany from three outbreaks of nosocomial infections and from sporadic nosocomial infections in five hospitals exhibited different SmaI-restriction patterns of their genomic DNA. Phage-typing and determination of pla...

Topics

• Bacterial Typing Techniques
• Cross Infection
• DNA, Bacterial
• Drug Resistance, Microbial
• Genome, Bacterial
• Humans
• Methicillin Resistance
• Mutation
• Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
• Quinolones
• Staphylococcal Infections