Twenty months of screening for glycopeptide-intermediateStaphylococcus aureus
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Detection of glycopeptide resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.
Sir, We have a number of comments regarding the recent letter from Aucken et al. describing a study of the incidence of GISA (glycopeptide-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus) in the UK using a number of different methodologies at different times. The emergence of S. aureus with reduced susceptibility to glycopeptides (particularly vancomycin), whilst a significant threat also poses interesting ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0305-7453,1460-2091
DOI: 10.1093/jac/46.4.639-a