Análisis genético de un aislado de alto nivel resistente a la vancomicina de Staphylococcus aureus

Linda M Weigel1, Don B Clewell, Steven R Gill

  • 1Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA. lweigel@cdc.gov

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|December 4, 2003
PubMed
Resumen

Una cepa de Staphylococcus aureus resistente a la vancomicina fue identificada en 2002. Esta resistencia probablemente fue el resultado de la transferencia in vivo del gen vanA de Enterococcus faecalis.

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