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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Dec 1996, 2820-2823, Vol 40, No. 12
Copyright © 1996 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Identification of chromosomal location of mupA gene, encoding low-level mupirocin resistance in staphylococcal isolates

MA Ramsey, SF Bradley, CA Kauffman and TM Morton
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, USA.

Low- and high-level mupirocin resistance have been reported in Staphylococcus aureus. The expression of plasmid-encoded mupA is responsible for high-level mupirocin resistance. Low-level mupirocin- resistant strains do not contain plasmid-encoded mupA, and a chromosomal location for this gene has not previously been reported. We examined high- and low-level mupirocin-resistant S. aureus strains to determine if mupA was present on the chromosome of low-level-resistant isolates. Southern blot analysis of DNA from four mupirocin-resistant strains identified mupA in both high- and low-level mupirocin-resistant strains. Low-level mupirocin-resistant strains contained a copy of mupA on the chromosome, while the high-level mupirocin-resistant isolate contained a copy of the gene on the plasmid. PCR amplification of genomic DNA from each mupirocin-resistant strain resulted in a 1.65-kb fragment, the predicted product from the intragenic mupA primers. This is the first report of a chromosomal location for the mupA gene conferring low-level mupirocin resistance.


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