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J Clin Microbiol
; 47(12): 4158-60, 2009 Dec.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-19812270
RESUMO
We investigated whether methicillin (meticillin)-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates with low-level mupirocin resistance can serve as recipients of a pSK41-like plasmid conferring high-level mupirocin resistance without substantial fitness cost. Our results suggest that acquisition of the plasmid conferring high-level mupirocin resistance was not necessarily associated with fitness cost in some MRSA recipients with low-level mupirocin resistance.