Emergence of mupirocin-resistant MRSA among Iranian clinical isolates

Comparative Clinical Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 717-721

  Sepehriseresht, Saeed ^a   Boroumand, Mohammad Ali ^a   Pourgholi, Leila ^a   Anvari, Maryam Sotoudeh ^a   Habibi, Ehsan ^b   Tabrizi, Mahboubeh Sattarzadeh ^b   Speed, Mohammad ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Methicillin; mupA; Mupirocin; S. aureus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879837366     PISSN: 16185641     EISSN: 1618565X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00580-012-1472-z     Document Type: Article

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