[Experimental substantiation of population heterogeneity in methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus]

Antibiot Khimioter. 1994 May;39(5):21-4.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

A comprehensive intraspecies typing of the cultures of MRSA collected during inspection of drug resistance in causative agents of intrahospital infections was performed. The following parameters were investigated: antibiotic resistance, toxin production, sensitivity to the phages of the International Set and the phages of an experimental collection providing the isolation of strains with definite specificity of the restriction-modification system. Different clones of methicillin resistant S. aureus were found to be circulating on the territory of the CIS.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Bacterial Typing Techniques
  • Bacteriophages / physiology
  • Methicillin Resistance / genetics*
  • Species Specificity
  • Staphylococcus aureus / classification
  • Staphylococcus aureus / drug effects*
  • Staphylococcus aureus / virology