Article
Detection and characterization of mupirocin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Sept 1993
Janssen D A, Zarins L T, Schaberg D R, Bradley S F, Terpenning M S, Kauffman C A
Abstract excerpt
Fourteen mupirocin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains were isolated over 18 months; 12 exhibited low-level resistance, while two showed high-level resistance. Highly mupirocin-resistant strains contained a large plasmid which transferred mupirocin resistance to other S. aureus strains and to...
Topics
- Conjugation, Genetic
- DNA, Bacterial
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Humans
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Mupirocin
- Phenotype
- Plasmids
- Staphylococcal Infections
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Staphylococcus epidermidis