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“METHICILLIN resistance” has been found in a number of strains of staphylococcus isolated in French hospitals. Chabbert and Baudens1 found in 1961 that ten of eighty-two strains investigated (12 per cent) were resistant to methicillin. In 1962 they found twenty-one resistant strains out of 127 (17 per cent), and in 1963 twenty-six out of 134 (19 per cent)2,3. Courtieu et al.4 found a similar picture in their investigation of hospitals in other parts of France. In 1964 they found thirty-one resistant strains out of 216 (14 per cent). The frequency found in France seems to be different from that found among strains isolated in England and the United States5–8.
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CHABBERT, Y., FILLET, J. Correlation between “Methicillin Resistance” and Serotype in Staphylococcus. Nature 213, 1137 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2131137a0
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