Ubiquitous presence of a mecA homologue in natural isolates of Staphylococcus sciuri

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 377-391

  Couto, Isabel ^a   De Lencastre, Herminia ^a,b,f   Severina, Elena ^b,c   Kloos, Wesley ^d   Webster, John A ^e   Hubner, Romero J ^e   Sanches, Ilda Santos ^a,f   Tomasz, Alexander ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DNA; METICILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROBE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030448306     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1996.2.377     Document Type: Article

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