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. 1978 Mar;13(3):466-72.
doi: 10.1128/AAC.13.3.466.

Infections due to gentamicin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain in a nursery for neonatal infants

L Vogel, C Nathan, H M Sweeney, S A Kabins, S Cohen

Infections due to gentamicin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain in a nursery for neonatal infants

L Vogel et al. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1978 Mar.

Abstract

An apparently homogeneous strain of Staphylococcus aureus resistant to gentamicin (Gmr), kanamycin, tobramycin, and sisomicin, but susceptible to amikacin and netilmicin, caused multiple infections in neonatal infants in a special care nursery. Nasal cultures revealed a high rate of carriage of the Gmr staphylococcus in infants without clinical infection. Segregating patients according to a modified cohort system and use of careful aseptic techniques led to apparent elimination of the Gmr strain. The resistance to aminoglycosides in this strain was mediated by an aminoglycoside 6'-N-acetyltransferase and a gentamicin phosphotransferase. Genetic determinants for these enzymes were borne on a circular covalently closed plasmid of approximately 11 megadaltons. These resistance determinants closely resemble those found in isolates of S. aureus that have caused nosocomial infections in patients in Europe.

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