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Continued in vitro cefazolin susceptibility in methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus
... 2013, CLSI eliminated all β-lactam antibiotic breakpoints for methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA), except oxacillin, cefoxitin, penicillin, and ceftaroline [6]. This recommendation derives from the ...
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Comparison of Culture Based Methods for Identification of Colonization with Methicillin Resistant and Methicillin Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in the Context of Cocolonization
... To demonstrate the utility of the data on Staphylococcus spp. from the broth-enrichment protocol, we next assessed cocoloni- zation between MRSA and MSSA, methicillin-susceptible Staph- ylococcus ...
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Analysis of Typing Methods for Epidemiological Surveillance of both Methicillin Resistant and Methicillin Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Strains
... Sequence-based methods for typing Staphylococcus aureus, such as multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and spa typing, have increased interlaboratory reproducibility, portability, and speed in obtaining results, but ...
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Comparison of Biofilm Formation between Methicillin-Resistant and Methicillin-Susceptible Isolates of Staphylococcus aureus
... of methicillin-resistant (MRSA) and methicillin-susceptible (MSSA) Staphylococcus ...to methicillin, and 54 (83%) MRSA harbored SCCmec ...
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Longitudinal Analysis of Methicillin Resistant and Methicillin Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Carriage in Healthy Adolescents
... S taphylococcus aureus is an extraordinarily versatile pathogen that can survive under hostile external environmental condi- tions, colonize mucous membranes and skin, and cause severe nonpurulent toxin-mediated disease ...
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Effect of Duplicate Isolates of Methicillin Susceptible and Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus on Antibiogram Data
... Duplicate Staphylococcus aureus isolates were analyzed to determine the impact of multiple isolates from the same patient on annual antibiogram data. During a 6-year period (1996 to 2001), 3,227 patients with 4,844 S. ...
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Endocarditis caused by methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin: a case report
... Case presentation: We report the case of a 66-year-old Hispanic man with infective endocarditis complicated by septic emboli in the lumbosacral spine and the left iliopsoas muscle. This disease was caused by ...
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Efficacy of cloxacillin versus cefazolin for methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (CloCeBa): study protocol for a randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial
... confirmed methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteraemia will be randomised to receive either cloxacillin or cefazolin by intravenous route and followed up until day ...
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Multilocus Sequence Typing for Characterization of Methicillin Resistant and Methicillin Susceptible Clones ofStaphylococcus aureus
... A multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme has been developed for Staphylococcus aureus. The sequences of internal fragments of seven housekeeping genes were obtained for 155 S. aureus isolates from patients with ...
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Molecular Surveillance and Population Structure Analysis of Methicillin Susceptible and Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in High Risk Wards
... In this study we report the results of analysis of 253 isolates of Staphylococcus aureus (132 methicillin [meticillin]-resistant S. aureus [MRSA] isolates and 121 methicillin-susceptible S. aureus ...
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Rapid Differentiation of Methicillin Resistant and Methicillin Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus by Flow Cytometry after Brief Antibiotic Exposure
... Flow cytometry. The MicroPRO machine was used for flow cytometry. Instru- ment characteristics include a sheath fluid flow rate of 16 to 19 ml/min, a sample flow rate of 0.1 ml/min, a red diode light source, and ...
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Molecular Epidemiology of Methicillin Resistant and Methicillin Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Global Clinical Trials
... (105 methicillin resistant and 187 methicillin susceptible) using a combination of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, multilocus sequence typing, and SCCmec ...positive, ...
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Clonal Complexes and Diversity of Exotoxin Gene Profiles in Methicillin Resistant and Methicillin Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Patients in a Spanish Hospital
... the methicillin (meticillin)-resistant (MRSA) and methicillin-susceptible (MSSA) clonal complexes (CCs) and clones of Staphylococcus aureus circulating in a Spanish hospital ...
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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
... the lukSF-PV genes in S. aureus isolates collected from interna- tional clinical trials in uncomplicated skin infections (22). We identified two major sequence variants of lukSF-PV, the R and H variants, based on a ...
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DNA polymorphisms in methicillin susceptible and methicillin resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus
... Restriction fragment length polymorphisms in methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant MRSA strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated in the same hospital over a 4-month period w[r] ...
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Updating Molecular Diagnostics for Detecting Methicillin Susceptible and Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates in Blood Culture Bottles
... ABSTRACT Molecular diagnostic tests can be used to provide rapid identification of staphylococcal species in blood culture bottles to help improve antimicrobial stew- ardship. However, alterations in the target nucleic ...
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Rapid Detection of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Methicillin Susceptible S aureus Directly from Positive Blood Cultures by Use of the BD Max StaphSR Assay
... S taphylococcus aureus is one of the most common pathogens isolated in blood cultures. S. aureus bacteremia is often a se- vere, life-threatening infection, for which early treatment can cir- cumvent serious morbidity. ...
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Interlaboratory variation of antibiograms of methicillin resistant and methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus strains with conventional and commercial testing systems
... aureus strains were coded and tested blindly by disk diffusion, agar dilution, broth microdilution, Sensititre, Micro-Media, Sceptor, API 3600S, MicroScan, Autobac I, and MS-2 systems.. [r] ...
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A molecular epidemiological study of methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible <em>Staphylococcus aureus</em> contamination in the airport environment
... The Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method was used to test sus- ceptibility to antibiotics, and diameter interpretations were based on the recommendations of the Clinical and Labora- tory Standards Institute (CLSI, 2013). ...
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Qac genes and biocide tolerance in clinical veterinary methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus pseudintermedius
... One hundred and eight clinical isolates of S. pseudintermedius (90 MRSP, 18 MSSP) and 17 methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) were included in the study. Bacterial isolates were obtained from three collections ...
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