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. 2009 Jul;47(7):2279-80.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01834-08. Epub 2009 May 27.

Mupirocin resistance among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus-colonized patients at admission to a tertiary care medical center

Tara Babu  1 , Violeta Rekasius, Jorge P Parada, Paul Schreckenberger, Malliswari Challapalli
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Mupirocin resistance among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus-colonized patients at admission to a tertiary care medical center

Tara Babu et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2009 Jul.

Abstract

All patients admitted to our tertiary care hospital from 1 December 2007 to 10 June 2008 were screened for methicillin (meticillin)-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal colonization, and the isolates were tested for mupirocin susceptibility by using Etest. Mupirocin resistance (MR) was noted to occur in 3.4% of MRSA carriers, and high-level MR was noted to occur in 0.62% of carriers.

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