Fan-xian Ouyang, Ping-feng Bu, Hui-qin Huang, Shi-xiang Bao
In order to explore the resistance and the staphylococcal chromosome cassette mec (SCCmec) types of Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) in the area of Haikou, 686 strains of MRSA had been distinguished from 1174 strains of S. aureus using PBP2a testing. The resistance to the seven deputies of seven kinds antibiotics which in common use in clinic, including Oxacillin, Vancomycin, Doxycyclin, Amikacin, Erythromycin, Chloramphenicol, Ciprofloxacin, and SCCmec type of 58 strains had been tested using the K-B Agar diffuse, E-test and multiplex PCR strategy, and seven kinds of new SCCmec types were found in 17 strains...
April 2007: Wei Sheng Wu Xue Bao, Acta Microbiologica Sinica