Guidelines for Reporting Novel mecA Gene Homologues
Author(s) -
Teruyo Ito,
Keiichi Hiramatsu,
Alexander Tomasz,
Hermı́nia de Lencastre,
Vincent Perreten,
Matthew T. G. Holden,
David C. Coleman,
Richard V. Goering,
Philip M. Giffard,
Robert Skov,
Kunyan Zhang,
Henrik Westh,
Frances O’Brien,
Fred C. Tenover,
Duarte C. Oliveira,
Susan BoyleVavra,
Frédéric Laurent,
Angela Kearns,
Barry N. Kreiswirth,
Kwan Soo Ko,
Hajo Grundmann,
Johanna U. Ericson,
Joseph F. John,
R Daum,
Bo Söderquist,
Girbe Buist
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.07
H-Index - 259
eISSN - 1070-6283
pISSN - 0066-4804
DOI - 10.1128/aac.01199-12
Subject(s) - penicillin binding proteins , sccmec , gene , penicillin , microbiology and biotechnology , staphylococcus aureus , antibiotics , methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus , biology , bacteria , genetics
Methicillin-resistant staphylococci are disseminated all over the world and are frequent causes of health care- and community-associated infections. Methicillin-resistant strains typically carry the acquired mecA gene that encodes a low-affinity penicillin-binding protein (PBP), designated PBP2a or
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