Acta Vet. Brno 2010, 79: 261-267

https://doi.org/10.2754/avb201079020261

Resistance to Methicillin in Coagulase-negative Staphylococci and Its Detection

Milan Kolář1, Jan Bardoň1,2, Vojtěch Hanulík1, Pavel Sauer1, Vladimír Babák3, Jarmila Schlegelová3

1Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic,
2State Veterinary Institute Olomouc, Czech Republic,
3Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic

Received January 8, 2008
Accepted September 8, 2009

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