de Lencastre and A Tomasz aureus . methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus essential for expression of high - level Reassessment of the number of auxiliary genes
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Reassessment of the number of auxiliary genes essential for expression of high-level methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.
A new transposon library constructed in the background of the highly and homogeneously methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain COL yielded 70 independent insertional mutants with reduced levels of antibiotic resistance. Restriction analysis with HindIII, EcoRV, EcoRI, and PstI and then Southern hybridization with probes for the transposon and for the femA-femB gene demonstrated that ...
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