Transferable Vancomycin resistance in a community-associated mrsa lineagetransferable vancomycin resistance in a community-associated MRSA lineage

We report the case of a patient from Brazil with a bloodstream infection caused by a strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that was susceptible to vancomycin (designated BR-VSSA) but that acquired the vanA gene cluster during antibiotic therapy and became resistant to vancomyc...

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Autores:

Rossi, Flávia
Diaz, Lorena
Wollam, Aye
Panesso, Diana
Zhou, Yanjiao
Rincon Núñez, Sandra
Narechania, Apurva
Xing, Galen
Di Gioia, Thais S R
Doi, André
Tran, Truc T
Reyes, Jinnethe
Munita, Jose M
Carvajal Ortiz, Lina Paola
Hernandez-Roldan, Alejandra
Brandão, Denise
van der Heijden, Inneke Marie
Murray, Barbara E
Planet, Paul J
Weinstock, George M
Arias, Cesar A

Tipo de recurso:

Article of journal

Fecha de publicación:

2014

Institución:

Universidad El Bosque

Repositorio:

Repositorio U. El Bosque

Idioma:

eng

OAI Identifier:

oai:repositorio.unbosque.edu.co:20.500.12495/3549

Acceso en línea:

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12495/3549
https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1303359
https://repositorio.unbosque.edu.co

Palabra clave:

Sepsis
Staphylococcus aureus
Meticilina

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