... Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) in a Malaysian Hospital ORIG'INAL ARTICLE Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) in a Malaysian Hospital I Cheong, FRCP* S C Tan, BSc** Y[.] ...
... 158 methicillin-resistantStaphylococcusaureus (MRSA) clinical isolates obtained from 1990 to 1996 in 18 different hospitals in ...of methicillin resistance ...to methicillin (n ...
... genera Staphylococcus are normally present in normal skin or nasal colonizers of human beings 1 ...the Staphylococcus is divided into two groups on the basis of the coagulase ...S aureus 2 ...S ...
... among methicillin-resistantStaphylococcusaureus strains causing skin and soft tissue infections in patients presenting to the emergency department of a Canadian tertiary care ...
... host. Staphylococcusaureus has a broad pathogenic potential causing a wide range of community acquired as well as nosocomial ...infections. Staphylococcusaureus infections are associated ...
... for methicillin-resistantStaphylococcusaureus (MRSA) transmission from a MRSA index person to household contacts were assessed in this prospective ...
... of methicillin-resistantStaphylococcusaureus (MRSA), with the results being used to institute infection control interventions aimed at preventing transmission of MRSA in health care environ- ...
... for methicillin-resistantStaphylococcusaureus (MRSA) on initial testing by the BD GeneOhm MRSA assay (BD-MRSA PCR; BD GeneOhm, San Diego, CA) were culture positive only for ...
... of Staphylococcusaureus have been reported world wide especially in developing countries, making antimicrobial agents increasingly, less effective in treating bacterial ...of Staphylococcus ...
... nonduplicate methicillin-resistantStaphylococcusaureus (MRSA) isolates causing bacteremia in patients in four major Hong Kong hospitals during the period 2000 to 2001 were characterized by ...
... Methicillin-resistantStaphylococcusaureus (MRSA), be- sides having established itself as a major hospital pathogen, is now beginning to prevail in the wider community as well (1, ...the ...
... of methicillin-resistantStaphylococcusaureus (MRSA) ...multidrug- resistant strains, which were designated as the Iberian and Brazilian MRSA clones and which were defined by multiple ...
... encoded methicillin resistance protein PBP2a than is oxacillin (7), which allowed growth on the cefoxitin (or other cephamy- cin analogue)- containing chromogenic media utilized in the present ...
... S. aureus is primarily mediated by overproduction of the penicillin-binding protein (PBP) 2a, and altered PBP with extremely low affinities for ß-lactam ...antimicrobial- resistant health care-related to ...
... The sequence reads for each representative isolate ( n = 209) were aligned against the reference genome of the MRSA S. aureus COL (accession number CP000046) [32] using SMALT (version 0.7.4; ...
... Microbial resistance to Antimicrobial agents can be Intrinsic or Extrinsic [8] . Intrinsic resistance results from the normal genetic structure or Physiological state of the micro organism. Extrinsic resistance is ...
... A stochastic model of the spread of resistant bacteria in a hospital ward was presented, and simulation experiments showed that the elimination of an endemic resistant strain following w[r] ...
... S. aureus sequences revealed that RpsL in the Jevons isolates contained an arginine in the equivalent position, residue ...S. aureus the frequent amino acid residue at position 56 was ...