Rahman M, Noble W C, Dyke K G
Department of Microbial Diseases, St John's Institute of Dermatology, St Thomas' Hospital, London.
J Med Microbiol. 1993 Dec;39(6):446-9. doi: 10.1099/00222615-39-6-446.
Probes constructed from a 4.05-kb EcoRI digest fragment of a mupirocin resistance plasmid and a 751-bp internal part of this fragment hybridised with DNA from all of 36 independent high-level mupirocin-resistant staphylococci tested from seven centres; most were Staphylococcus aureus. In most instances the probes detected an EcoRI digest fragment of approximately 4 kb. Probes did not hybridise to DNA from low-level resistant strains, nor from strains sensitive to mupirocin.
