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Retrospective screening for heterogeneous vancomycin resistance in diverse Staphylococcus aureus clones disseminated in French hospitals
Abstract : Twenty-five different Staphylococcus aureus strains that are widespread in France were screened by various methods for heterogeneous and low-level resistance to vancomycin. Population analysis on brain-heart infusion agar containing 4 mg/L of the drug detected resistant cells at frequencies of 10-7 to 10-6 in five multiply resistant strains. There was no antagonism between vancomycin and beta-lactam antibiotics. One of the five strains, isolated in 1993, was considered a putative progenitor of a French nosocomial S. aureus strain isolated in 1998 and for which the vancomycin MIC was 8 mg/L.
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Contributor : Olivier Chesneau <>
Submitted on : Friday, December 18, 2020 - 3:54:25 PM
Last modification on : Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - 9:37:44 PM
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