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Staphylococcal Resistance Patterns, blaZ and SCCmec Cassette Genes in the Nasopharyngeal Microbiota of Pregnant Women

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Published in 2023 at "International Journal of Molecular Sciences"

DOI: 10.3390/ijms24097980

Abstract: Antimicrobial resistance in Staphylococcus spp. colonising the nasopharynx can create risk factors of therapeutic treatment failure or prophylaxis in pregnant women. Resistance is mostly encoded on plasmids (e.g., blaZ gene for penicillinase synthesis) or chromosomes… read more here.

Keywords: microbiota pregnant; sccmec cassette; pregnant women; resistance ... See more keywords