Mechanisms of Gentamicin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
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Mechanisms of gentamicin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.
Three clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus resistant to gentamicin and other aminoglycosides have been examined for antibiotic modifying enzymes. The strains contain a number of these enzymes, most of them similar to those commonly found in aminoglycoside-resistant gram-negative strains. All three strains (and a transductant derived from one of them) contain two enzymes mediating gentamic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0066-4804,1098-6596
DOI: 10.1128/aac.11.1.47