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Heterogeneous vancomycin resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated in a large
A Marchese1, G Balistreri, E Tonoli
1Institute of Microbiology, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy. genmicr@unige.it
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|February 3, 2000
Abstract:
Of 179 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from 1997 to 1998, two strains (1.1%) gave subclones for which the vancomycin MICs were 8 mg/liter. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis showed identical restriction patterns for both isolates, suggesting transfer of a single clone between two different patients.