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Abstract
Summary
Probes constructed from a 4.05-kb EcoR1 digest fragment of a mupirocin resistance plasmid and a 751-bp internal part of this fragment hybridised with DNA from all of 36 independent high-level mupirocin-resistant staphylococci tested from seven centres; most were Staphylococcus aureus. In most instances the probes detected an EcoR1 digest fragment of approximately 4 kb. Probes did not hybridise to DNA from low-level resistant strains, nor from strains sensitive to mupirocin.
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© Society for General Microbiology, 1993