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Seventy-eight staphylococcal strains were isolated from surgical-site, blood-stream and other hospital-acquired infections. Eighteen isolates were determined as methicillin (MET)-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), while the remaining were MET-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS). Fifty percent of CoNS strains were multiresistant, while 10 % of isolates were resistant only to β-lactams. Clinical isolates of CoNS were generally more resistant to antimicrobial agents than S. aureus strains. Thirty-nine % of S. aureus strains were resistant only to β-lactams. None of the MRSA strains carried ileS-2 gene; this gene was found in two strains of S. epidermidis.
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Abbreviations
- CoNS:
-
coagulase-negative staphylococci
- MRS:
-
methicillin-resistant staphylococci
- HLMupR:
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high-level MUP resistance
- MRSA:
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methicillin-resistan S. aureus
- MET:
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methicillin
- MUP:
-
mupirocin
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Szczuka, E., Kaznowski, A., Bosacka, K. et al. Antimicrobial resistance and presence of ileS-2 gene encoding mupirocin resistance in clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus sp.. Folia Microbiol 54, 153–156 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12223-009-0023-8
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