Article
Analysis of pristinamycin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates responsible for an outbreak in a Parisian hospital.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Oct 1993
Loncle V, Casetta A, Buu-Hoi A, el Solh N
Abstract excerpt
In 1990, over a 6-month period, an increase from 1 to 10% in the incidence of pristinamycin resistance among coagulase-negative staphylococci was observed in four intensive care units of a Parisian hospital. Twenty-three such isolates, as well as 25 pristinamycin-susceptible Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates, were collected and typed by analyzing various bacterial constituents. Two structurally related plasmids...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Cross Infection
- DNA Probes
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Humans
- Immunoblotting
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Paris
- Phenotype
- Plasmids