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MIXED INFECTION WITH METHICILLIN‐RESISTANT AND METHlCILLIN‐SENSITIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS OF PHAGE TYPE 88
Author(s) -
Annear D. I.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1971.tb88100.x
Subject(s) - microbiology and biotechnology , staphylococcus aureus , antibiotics , benzylpenicillin , biology , incubation , staphylococcus , antibiotic resistance , methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus , bacteria , virology , penicillin , genetics , biochemistry
Two distinct isolates of Staphylococcus aureus were obtained on several occasions from an infected squamous‐cell carcinoma of the lip on an elderly male patient. One isolate was methicillin‐resistant and the other methicillin‐sensitive, but both were phage type 88. Sensitivity to other antibiotics of the two isolates and of their penicillinase‐negative variants has been studied, as has also the effect of sodium chloride and incubation temperature on methicillin resistance and intrinsic resistance to benzylpenicillin. The origin and relationship of the two isolates are as yet unexplained.