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Virtually all methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in the largest Portuguese teaching hospital are caused by two internationally spread multiresistant strains: the ‘Iberian’ and the ‘Brazilian’ clones of MRSA

Duarte C. Oliveira, Ilda Santos‐Sanches, R. Mato, Mónica Tamayo, G. Ribeiro, Dias Costa, Hermı́nia de Lencastre

Clinical Microbiology and Infection · 1998 · 74 citations · 20 references

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New mechanism for methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus: clinical isolates that lack the PBP 2a gene and contain normal penicillin-binding proteins with modified penicillin-binding capacity

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