An outbreak of Staphylococcus aureus strains with reduced susceptibility to glycopeptides in a French general hospital.

Pina, P; Marliere, C; Vandenesch, F; Bedos, J P; Etienne, J; Allouch, P Y · Clin Infect Dis · 2000

case_series · Level IV

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Abstract

We describe the isolation of Staphylococcus aureus isolates with glycopeptide heteroresistant subpopulation from 15 patients (11 with colonizations and 4 with infections) in a French hospital. Non of the patients were previously treated with glycopeptides. The 15 isolates belonged to 2 different pulsotypes unrelated to other methicillin-resistant S. aureus isolates from the same hospital.

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