Staphylococcus aureus
Antibiotic-Resistant Deadly Bacterium at Hospitals in Japan
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, June 23rd, 1997
"My laboratory has received the strain from Dr. Hiramatsu in Japan and has confirmed the isolation of a strain of S. aureus (ID confirmed at CDC) with a vancomycin MIC of 8 ug/ml (broth microdilution). [MIC = minimum inhibitory concentration; the higher the number, the greater the antibiotic resistance].
"The disk diffusion zone size was 18-19 mm. It is an MRSA strain [MRSA = multi-drug resistant S....
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