An Outbreak of Staphylococcus aureus Strains with Reduced Susceptibility to Glycopeptides in a French General Hospital
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- 15 November 2000
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 31 (5) , 1306-1308
- https://doi.org/10.1086/317464
Abstract
We describe the isolation of Staphylococcus aureus isolates with glycopeptide heteroresistant subpopulation from 15 patients (11 with colonizations and 4 with infections) in a French hospital. Non of the patients were previously treated with glycopeptides. The 15 isolates belonged to 2 different pulsotypes unrelated to other methicillin-resistant S. aureus isolates from the same hospital.Keywords
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