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Multidrug-resistant Iberian epidemic clone of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus endemic in a hospital in northern Portugal.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 1995
Sanches I S, Aires de Sousa M, Sobral L, Calheiros I, Felicio L, Pedra I, de Lencastre H
Abstract excerpt
Forty-two methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates collected during 1992-1995 at a hospital in the north of Portugal were characterized by a variety of genomic fingerprints. Hybridization of ClaI and SmaI restriction digests with the mecA- and Tn554-specific DNA probes was used to identify polymorphs and determine their localization in chromosomal DNA preparations, and pulsed-field gel...
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