PROBES FOR THE STUDY OF MUPIROCIN RESISTANCE IN STAPHYLOCOCCI

被引:16
作者
RAHMAN, M
NOBLE, WC
DYKE, KGH
机构
[1] ST THOMAS HOSP,ST JOHNS INST DERMATOL,DEPT MICROBIAL DIS,LONDON SE1 7EH,ENGLAND
[2] UNIV OXFORD,DEPT BIOCHEM,MICROBIOL UNIT,OXFORD OX1 3QU,ENGLAND
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D O I
10.1099/00222615-39-6-446
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Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
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 EeoRI digest fragment of approximately 4 kb. Probes did not hybridise to DNA from low-level resistant strains, nor from strains sensitive to mupirocin.
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页码:446 / 449
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