Dissemination of high-level mupirocin-resistant CC22-MRSA-IV in Saxony

• Main Authors: Monecke, Stefan (Author), Ruppelt-Lorz, Antje (Author), Müller, Elke (Author), Reissig, Annett (Author), Thürmer, Alexander (Author), Shore, Anna C. (Author), Coleman, David C. (Author), Ehricht, Ralf (Author), Jatzwauk, Lutz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House, 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Mupirocin is used for eradicating methicillin-resistant (MRSA) in nasal colonization. A plasmid-borne gene, , is associated with high-level mupirocin resistance. Despite the fact that, among all MRSA from a tertiary care center in the German state of Saxony, the prevalence of , encoding high-level m...