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Evolutionary Dynamics of Pandemic Methicillin Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus ST398 and Its International Spread via Routes of Human Migration
... ABSTRACT Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) accounts for the majority of ...dominant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clone ...
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Therapy refractory Panton Valentine Leukocidin positive community acquired methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus sepsis with progressive metastatic soft tissue infection: a case report
... We report a case of fulminant multiple organ failure including the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), haemodynamic, and renal failure due to community-acquired methicillin-sensitive Panton ...
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Clinically mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion caused by methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia with toxic shock syndrome: a case report
... tazobactam therapy was switched to cefepime and vanco- mycin. On hospital day 4, methicillin-sensitive S. aureus (MSSA) was detected in blood cultures. Nafcillin and oxa- cillin, the first treatment of ...
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Comparison of methicillin resistant and methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from a tertiary hospital in Terengganu, Malaysia
... SUMMARY: Staphylococcus aureus is a persistent human pathogen responsible for a variety of infec- tions ranging from soft-tissue infections to bacteremia. The objective of this study was to determine genetic relatedness ...
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Genetic Relationship between Methicillin Sensitive and Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains from France and from International Sources: Delineation of Genomic Groups
... Bacterial strains. A total of 271 strains of S. aureus originating from diverse geographical origins were examined (Table 1). Two hundred twenty-six of the strains came from collections that have previously been analyzed ...
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A Comparison of Clinical Features and Mortality among Methicillin Resistant and Methicillin Sensitive Strains of Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis
... Our objective was to assess the clinical factors that would reliably distinguish methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) from methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) endocarditis. A retrospective cohort ...
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Genetic Variation among Hospital Isolates of Methicillin Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus: Evidence for Horizontal Transfer of Virulence Genes
... Staphylococcus aureus strains often carry in their genomes virulence genes that are not found in all strains and that may be carried on discrete genetic elements. Strains also differ in that they carry one of four ...
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Real Time PCR Testing for mecA Reduces Vancomycin Usage and Length of Hospitalization for Patients Infected with Methicillin Sensitive Staphylococci
... with methicillin-resistant isolates were used as a control group to evaluate for confounding variables that may have affected antibiotic ...The methicillin-resistant infection group did not demonstrate a ...
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In vitro evaluation of methicillin resistant and methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus susceptibility to Saudi honeys
... Sumra honey had a lower MIC (indicative of better antibacterial activity) than Manuka honey against all tested clinical isolates and reference strains, MRSA (ATCC 43300) and MSSA (ATCC 29213). An equiva- lent MIC (15.0% ...
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Prevalence of nasal colonisation by methicillin sensitive and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus among healthcare workers and students in Madagascar
... Staphylococcus protein A gene (spa) typing was per- formed for all 20 MRSA isolates. Of the five different spa types identified, spa type t186 was the predominant clone (16/20, 80.0 %) among both HCW and students (Table ...
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Healthcare associated transmission of Panton Valentine leucocidin positive methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus: the value of screening asymptomatic healthcare workers
... of methicillin-resistant Staphylococ- cus aureus (MRSA) is a high priority for infection control and prevention ...and methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) ...
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Genome sequence of a recently emerged, highly transmissible, multi antibiotic and antiseptic resistant variant of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, sequence type 239 (TW)
... transmissible methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strain (designated TW) in an intensive care unit (ICU) in London was recently reported ...penicillin, methicillin, erythromycin, ...
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Novel Determinants of Antibiotic Resistance: Identification of Mutated Loci in Highly Methicillin Resistant Subpopulations of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
... of methicillin-susceptible ...different methicillin MIC values from a patient with an MRSA infection ...The methicillin MIC of the majority of the bacteria was 2 g/ml, but upon prolonged incubation ...
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High prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin resistant S aureuscolonization among healthy children attending public daycare centers in informal settlements in a large urban center in Brazil
... Present in the nares, but also in the throat, axilla, groin, perineum, and vagina, Staphylococcus aureus is the most commonly isolated bacterial pathogen in humans. It is responsible for a number of infections, ranging ...
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Prevalence and Sequence Variation of Panton Valentine Leukocidin in Methicillin Resistant and Methicillin Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Strains in the United States
... positive isolates, including USA300 isolates, share the R variant haplotype and that most of the lukSF-PV-positive MSSA in the United States is from CC8. This finding is consistent with a model in which a fraction of ...
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Detection of Methicillin Resistance Staphylococcus Aureus from Various Clinical Specimens from a Tertiary Care Hospital by Phenotypic and Genotypic Methods
... of Methicillin Resistance Staphylococcus aureus from various clinical specimens from a tertiary care hospital by phenotypic and genotypic methods” submitted by me for the Degree of ...
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... Staphylococcus aureus infections have become more complicated and difficult to treat due the emergence of MRSA, hVISA, VISA and Vancomycin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) strains. According to CLSI guidelines ...
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Study of the Adhesion of Clinical Strains of Staphylococcus aureus on an Abiotic Surface Using the Biofilm Ring Test®
... The results obtained in the wells of a microplate were, at least, partly confirmed by measuring the adhesion of the bacteria on catheter tubing. In agreement with the results of the BFRT and the CVSM, the MRSA strains ...
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Community Acquisition of Gentamicin Sensitive Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Southeast Queensland, Australia
... Lack of resistance to the other antimicrobials tested was also quite uniform in the community-acquired isolates, with only one expressing resistance to ciprofloxacin. The phenotypic ex- pression of resistance to ...
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Antimicrobial resistance in atopic dermatitis : need for an urgent rethink
... 14. Shi B, Leung DYM, Taylor PA, Li H. Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization Is Associated with Decreased Skin Commensal Bacteria in Atopic Dermatitis. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 2018 ...
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