… among clinical isolates could be the result of mutations occurring during subculture after
isolation. Accordingly, we studied agr functionality in a series of clinical S. aureus isolates that …

… and blood culture S. aureus isolates from Western Pomerania in northeastern Germany.
The demographic data are summarized in Table 1. A total of 107 nasal isolates were obtained …

… This problem was not encountered with any S. aureus isolate, but many isolates from this
species were negative with the Slidex kit (Table 2). Two S. haemolyticus …

… , MRSA isolates phenotypically similar to CA strains have become the predominant isolates
… Some banked isolates did not grow, and in 1 isolate we could not detect an SCCmec …

… Program), together with relevant information for the isolate. The MICs of a range of antibiotics
were … The origins of the S. aureus isolates tested are shown in Table1. The presence of the …

… The prevalence of VRSA was 12% (95% CI 2–27) among 6736 S. aureus isolates using
disk diffusion agar method, 7% (95% CI 4–12) among 5671 isolates using MIC-base methods, …

… the existence of se genes in Staphylococcus aureus isolates and does not prove that the …
of the sea to sei genes in 146 S. aureus isolates that had been obtained from humans involved …

… A total of 97 S. aureus isolates obtained from various clinical specimens such as wound
swabs (63, 64.90%), urine (17, 17.50%), blood cultures (3, 3.10%), sputum (4, 4.12%) and other …

… Heterogeneous vancomycin-intermediate susceptibility phenotype in bloodstream
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from an international cohort of patients with …

… The oxacillin-resistant S. aureus isolates examined in this study came from three sources.
The first source was the Public Health Research Institute (PHRI) collection, from which 40 …