Clonal dissemination of linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus haemolyticus exhibiting the G2576T mutation in the 23S rRNA gene in a tertiary care hospital in Brazil

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2792-2793

  De Almeida, Lara M ^a   Lincopan, Nilton ^a   De Araújo, Maria Rita E ^b   Mamizuka, Elsa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL BENEFICÊNCIA PORTUGUESA DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEZOLID;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAZIL; CLONING; GENE MUTATION; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ACETAMIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAZIL; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; OXAZOLIDINONES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 84860168080     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.06089-11     Document Type: Letter

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