Evolution of a vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus strain in vivo: multiple changes in the antibiotic resistance phenotypes of a single lineage of methicillin-resistant S. aureus under the impact of antibiotics administered for chemotherapy.

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on April 01, 2003

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K Sieradzki1, T Leski, J Dick, L Borio, A Tomasz

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1: The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021, USA.

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