Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Daptomycin-Resistant Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains: Relative Roles of mprF and dlt Operons

• Nagendra N. Mishra ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nagendra N. Mishra, Arnold S. Bayer

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Arnold S. Bayer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nagendra N. Mishra, Arnold S. Bayer

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Christopher Weidenmaier,

  Affiliations Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Tübingen, Germany

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• Timo Grau,

  Affiliation Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Stefanie Wanner,

  Affiliation Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Stefania Stefani,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences-Microbiology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

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• Viviana Cafiso,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences-Microbiology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

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• Taschia Bertuccio,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences-Microbiology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

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• Michael R. Yeaman,

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Division of Molecular Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

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• Cynthia C. Nast,

  Affiliations The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Soo-Jin Yang

  * E-mail: sjyang@ucla.edu

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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