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SUBMITTER: Gopegui ER
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3318316 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20120103 4
A multidrug resistance (MDR) conjugative plasmid of ca. 50 kb (designated pERGB) was detected in a linezolid and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain with sequence type 125 (ST125-MRSA-IVc). This strain was detected in two patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, previously treated with multiple antimicrobials, including linezolid. pERGB was transferable by conjugation and carried the resistance genes cfr (oxazolidinones, phenicols, lincosamides, pleuromutilins, and str ...[more]