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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Caen
Hypermutable Staphylococcus aureus strains common in patients
July 30th, 2003
Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients commonly carry hypermutable strains of staphylococcal pathogens. "Incidence of resistance to erythromycin at our institution reached 53% in 122 Staphylococcus aureus isolates obtained from patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) from 1997 to 1999." according to A.L. Prunier and colleagues at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Caen. "Macrolide-resistance genes were sought for in 20 erythromycin-resistant isolates from nine patients with CF by use of polymerase chain reaction," they wrote in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. "Thirteen strains did not contain any known macrolide-resistance genes." ...
Source: Biotech Week (2003-07-30)
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