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Phenotypical and genotypical characterization of epidemic clumping factor-negative, oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 1993
Schwarzkopf A, Karch H, Schmidt H, Lenz W, Heesemann J
Abstract excerpt
A total of 50 oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA) strains that were clumping factor negative (CFN) and protein A negative by latex agglutination were collected from patients in six different hospitals at different locations in Germany during 1991 and 1992. Antibiograms, bacteriophage typing, and plasmid analysis were performed. The antibiograms showed that, besides oxacillin, all CFN ORSA strains...
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