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. 1989 May;27(5):1122–1124. doi: 10.1128/jcm.27.5.1122-1124.1989

Susceptibility of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to lysostaphin.

M M Huber 1, T W Huber 1
PMCID: PMC267499  PMID: 2745687

Abstract

One hundred and eleven isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus recovered from patients at the Olin E. Teague Veterans Center from March 1983 to April 1987 were as susceptible to lysis by lysostaphin as methicillin-susceptible S. aureus controls were.

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