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SUBMITTER: Poutanen SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC89309 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Poutanen S M SM de Azavedo J J Willey B M BM Low D E DE MacDonald K S KS
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 19990601 6
Antimicrobial resistance was characterized for 14 strains of Streptococcus mitis. HinfI restriction fragment length mapping of gyrA PCR amplicons from three ciprofloxacin-resistant isolates correlated with mutations associated with such resistance in other organisms. By using PCR, seven erythromycin-resistant strains were found to possess either the mef or ermB gene. Hybridization revealed tet(M) in seven tetracycline-resistant isolates. ...[more]