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Genetic control of population structure in heterogeneous strains of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology - 1 Jan 1993
de Lencastre H, Figueiredo A M, Tomasz A
Abstract excerpt
Cultures of heterogeneous strains of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus are composed of several subpopulations of cells that differ in their level of antibiotic resistance and frequencies. Experimental evidence is presented indicating that the number of these subpopulations, their resistance level and the frequency with which they are represented in a culture are strain-specific and reproducible with a...
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