Probes for the study of mupirocin resistance in staphylococci
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- 1 December 1993
- journal article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of Medical Microbiology
- Vol. 39 (6) , 446-449
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00222615-39-6-446
Abstract
Probes constructed from a 4.05-kb EcoRI digest fragment of a mupirocin resistance plasmid and a 751-bp internal part of this fragment hybridised with DNA from all of 36 independent high-level mupirocin-resistant staphylococci tested from seven centres; most were Staphylococcus aureus. In most instances the probes detected an EcoRI digest fragment of approximately 4 kb. Probes did not hybridise to DNA from low-level resistant strains, nor from strains sensitive to mupirocin.Keywords
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