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SUBMITTER: Monecke S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5696886 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Monecke Stefan S Ruppelt-Lorz Antje A Müller Elke E Reissig Annett A Thürmer Alexander A Shore Anna C AC Coleman David C DC Ehricht Ralf R Jatzwauk Lutz L
GMS hygiene and infection control 20171120
Mupirocin is used for eradicating methicillin-resistant <i>S. aureus</i> (MRSA) in nasal colonization. A plasmid-borne gene, <i>mupA</i>, 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 <i>mupA</i>, encoding high-level mupirocin resistance, was approximately 1% over a 15-year period from 2000-2015, a sharp increase to nearly 20% was observed in 2016/2017. DNA microarray profilin ...[more]