Article
Microbiological Characteristics of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
2010-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a typical pathogen of nosocomial infection, and has recently emerged as an important community-acquired pathogen. MRSA is notorious as a multidrug-resistant organism. Its resistance to all β-lactams is mediated by PBP2a which is encoded by mecA, and it is also resistant to many antimicrobials of other classes due to frequently co-carrying resistance genes, whic...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9cd9e489-d4d4-55af-ac48-d3fc52b83679
- DOI
- 10.5145/kjcm.2010.13.1.1
