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. 2009 Jul;47(7):2311-6.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01749-08. Epub 2009 Apr 29.

The first vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from patients in Thailand

Aroonlug Lulitanond  1 , Chulapan Engchanil, Prajuab Chaimanee, Malai Vorachit, Teruyo Ito, Keiichi Hiramatsu
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The first vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from patients in Thailand

Aroonlug Lulitanond et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2009 Jul.

Abstract

We screened 533 and 361 methicillin (meticillin)-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated in a university hospital in 2002 and 2003 and in 2006 and 2007, respectively, and identified 4 (0.8%) of the strains in the first group and 8 (2.2%) of the strains in second group as heterogeneous vancomycin-resistant S. aureus (heterogeneous VISA) strains and 3 (0.8%) of the strains in the second group as VISA strains. This is the first report of VISA strains isolated from patients in Thailand.

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PAPs of three VISA isolates, one hetero-VISA isolate, and control strains in the presence of vancomycin.
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PAPs of three VISA isolates and control strains in the presence of teicoplanin.
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PFGE banding patterns of SmaI-digested chromosomal DNA samples. Lanes contained samples from the following strains: A, JCSC 6903; B, JCSC 6904; C, JCSC 7194; D, JCSC 7204; E, JCSC 7206; F, JCSC 7207; G, JCSC 7192; H, JCSC 7196; I, JCSC 7201; J, JCSC 7205; K, JCSC 7193; L, JCSC 7203; N, JCSC 6902; O, JCSC 6905; P, JCSC 7195; Q, Mu3; R, Mu50; and S, JCSC 6890 (a HA-MRSA isolate from the same hospital). Lanes M, molecular size markers.
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