Antibiotic resistance and molecular characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis recovered from hospital personnel in China

Antibiotic resistance and molecular characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis recovered from hospital personnel in China

Objectives: Staphylococcus epidermidis is a major nosocomial pathogen predominantly associated with indwelling medical device infections. Studies reporting on S. epidermidis recovered from hospital personnel in China are scarce. The aim of this study was to evaluate the carriage and antibiotic resis...

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Main Authors: Zhen Xu, Rory Cave, Liqin Chen, Tsetan Yangkyi, Yan Liu, Ke Li, Ge Meng, Kaijun Niu, Wanqi Zhang, Naijun Tang, Jun Shen, Hermine V. Mkrtchyan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-09-01
Series:Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
Subjects:
Staphylococcus epidermidis
Hospital personnel
mecA
SCCmec
MLST
Sequence type
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213716520300424

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