intensive care unit patients in a Spanish hospital during March 2008 to August 2009, and 27
of these isolates (from 21 patients) were typed as methicillin-and linezolid-resistant
Staphylococcus epidermidis. Thirteen of these 21 patients (62%) had received linezolid
during the 3 months preceding S. epidermidis recovery. Two closely related pulsotypes (P1a
and P1b) were identified among the 27 studied isolates that belonged to the sequence type …