Genotypic and phenotypic features of MRSA with an incomplete hemolysis phenotype in a tertiary teaching hospital in China
Wanjun Chen, Roushan Liu, Minghui Hao, Yingjun Wang, Wenqi Zheng, Junrui Wang · 2026
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Wanjun Chen and colleagues profile drug resistant staph bacteria that oddly fail to fully break down blood, in a 2026 study. The work comes from a teaching hospital in Inner Mongolia, China. Isolates gathered from patients between 2010 and 2024 numbered over eleven hundred. Close to three in ten showed the weak blood clearing trait, most of them from lower airway samples, with blood samples next.
Two clones ruled the weak group, one taking the vast bulk of cases. Toxin genes were common, and a third of isolates carried two of them at once. Biofilm output split across weak, middling, and strong bands, with the strong band the largest. Gene scans hunted a switch gene whose faults may explain the dim blood clearing and the tougher drug resistance this group is known for.
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| CREATOR | Wanjun Chen, Roushan Liu, Minghui Hao, Yingjun Wang, Wenqi Zheng, Junrui Wang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39265 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |