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Advances in mechanisms of bacterial resistance to linezolid and related detection methods 1. No. 263 Hospital of Chinese People s Liberation Army, Beijing 101149, China; 2. Dalian Medical University,Abstract: Linezolid is an antibacterial belonging to the oxazolidinone class of antibiotics. The importance of linezolid as an antibiotic is related to its activity against a number of clinically significant Gram-positive cocci, including
multidrug-resistant staphylococci and vancomycin-resistant enterococci. Although bacterial resistance to linezolid is not
a major issue at present, its development in clinical isolates should be paid more attention. In this article, the
mechanisms of bacterial resistance to linezolid, and related detection methods were reviewed. We showed that
bacterial resistance is mediated by a single-nucleotide mutation and the production of methyltransferase, however,
other potential mechanisms have not yet been determined. The detection methods for linezolid resistance include
microbiological and molecular biological methods, some of which would benefit from technological improvements. Key words: Linezolid; Resistance; Oxazolidinone; Bacteria
( methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA)
( vancomycin-resistant enterococci,
Corresponding author: XIA Meng-Y an, E-mail: Yixmy@ 126. com
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( chloramphenicol-florfenicol resistance,
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