Transferable multidrug resistance plasmid carrying cfr associated with tet(L), ant(4′)-Ia, and dfrK genes from a clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST125 strain

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2139-2142

  De Gopegui, Enrique Ruiz ^a   Juan, Carlos ^a   Zamorano, Laura ^a   Pérez, José L ^a   Oliver, Antonio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SON ESPASES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN; DAPTOMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINCOSAMIDE; LINEZOLID; METICILLIN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; OXACILLIN; OXAZOLIDINONE DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PLEUROMUTILIN; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BROTH DILUTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACETAMIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; OXAZOLIDINONES; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SPAIN;

EID: 84858694431     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.06042-11     Document Type: Article

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