Phenotypic and molecular characterization of resistance to macrolides, lincosamides and type B streptogramin of clinical isolates of Staphylococcus spp. of a university hospital in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Phenotypic and molecular characterization of resistance to macrolides, lincosamides and type B streptogramin of clinical isolates of Staphylococcus spp. of a university hospital in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Introduction: There is a mechanism of macrolide resistance in Staphylococcus spp. which also affects the lincosamides and type B streptogramins characterizing the so-called MLSB resistance, whose expression can be constitutive (cMLSB) or inducible (iMLSB) and is encoded mainly by ermA and ermC genes...

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Main Authors: Jussyêgles Niedja da Paz Pereira, Marcelle Aquino Rabelo, Jailton Lobo da Costa Lima, Armando Monteiro Bezerra Neto, Ana Catarina de Souza Lopes, Maria Amélia Vieira Maciel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-05-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1413867016300502

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