Mechanism of reduced vancomycin susceptibility conferred by walK mutation in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain MW2.

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Published in Antimicrob Agents Chemother on December 01, 2014

Authors

Jinfeng Hu1, Xu Zhang1, Xiaoyu Liu1, Chuan Chen1, Baolin Sun2

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Microbiology and Immunology and CAS Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Disease, School of Life Sciences and Medical Center, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China.
2: Department of Microbiology and Immunology and CAS Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Disease, School of Life Sciences and Medical Center, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Hefei, Anhui, China sunb@ustc.edu.cn.

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