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Identification of a methicillin-resistant strain of Staphylococcus caprae from a human clinical specimen
K Kanda1, E Suzuki, K Hiramatsu
1Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
The analysis of gel banding patterns of penicillin-binding proteins was used to identify two clinical isolates of a coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species as Staphylococcus caprae, a species originally isolated from goat's milk. One of the isolates was further shown to carry mecA, the structural gene for methicillin resistance.