… ; (iii) correlation between antibiotic resistance patterns and spa … specific marker of mecA/
mecC mediated methicillin resistance … is the mecA gene encoding for methicillin-resistance. The …

… were resistant to cefoxitin and harbored the mecA gene. On … This gene is commonly studied
as a marker for community-… of antibiotic resistance profiles, and epidemiological information …

… and wide distribution of antimicrobial resistance (such as MRSA), … Usually, the amplification
of coa gene relies on regular PCR … to represent new epidemiological markers for the clones. …

… This acquisition of antimicrobial resistance has presented a … and acquired resistance via the
incorporation of a mecA gene into … Originally developed in the 1940s, phage typing was the …

… to investigate the pattern of antibiotic resistance in MRSA … information for epidemiological
investigations, outbreak control… of PCR products by agarose gel electrophoresis of mecA genes…

… to type MRSA isolates to get an insight into epidemiology, … All MRSA strains possessed an
mecA gene (and were mecC … ) were resistant to tetracycline, which is a common marker of LA-…

… to the selection of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria) and … , but epidemiological evidence
shows that this resistance … explain only a minority of carriage patterns, as S. lugdunensis …

… understanding of the genetic diversity, epidemiology, evolution … mecA gene complex (responsible
for methicillin resistance) … Although many antibiotic resistance markers appear to have …

… aureus acquires methicillin resistance through mecA gene that is responsible for the … Phage
typing … Similarity of antibiotic resistance patterns and molecular typing properties of methi…

… , encoded primarily by the mecA gene. Rapid and accurate … for susceptibility testing in
laboratories and is the marker for … Among these, bacteriophage typing was used in the past by …