meticillin-resistant S. aureus
Decline of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Oxfordshire hospitals is strain-specific and preceded infection-control intensification
... Staphylococcus aureus have evolved, expanded, made a marked clinical impact and then disappeared over several ...rising meticillin-resistant S aureus (MRSA) rates, UK ...
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Clinical Application of Real Time PCR to Screening Critically Ill and Emergency Care Surgical Patients for Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a Quantitative Analytical Study
... Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization is constrained by the predictive values of their results: as MRSA prevalence falls, the assay’s positive predictive value (PPV) drops, and a rising proportion of positive ...
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Universal screening for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus : interim results from the NHS Scotland pathfinder project
... Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are associated with greater risk of treat- ment failure, increased patient mortality and higher costs than infections with meticillin- susceptible ...of S. ...
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Emergent and evolving antimicrobial resistance cassettes in community associated fusidic acid and meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
... given that SSTIs have become the leading source of bacteraemia in England since 2009 (R. Hope, personal communication). This asso- ciation with SSTIs was consistent with data from CUH, where the majority (71%) of samples ...
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The identification and epidemiology of meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile in patient rooms and the ward environment
... Patients are the main reservoirs of both these patho- gens, but there is increasing evidence that the environ- ment may play a significant role in the nosocomial transmission of MRSA [4] and C. difficile [5]. The ability ...
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Approaching zero : temporal effects of a restrictive antibiotic policy on hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile, extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing coliforms and meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
... Determination of new acquisitions was performed system- atically for all patients following laboratory confirmation. After excluding duplicate specimens, each new acquisition alert was sub- jected to rigorous ...
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Carriage of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococci and Their SCCmec Types in a Long Term Care Facility
... Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a point-prevalence survey of the nasal carriage of staphylococci was conducted in a long-term-care facility in northern Finland in ...carried S. aureus and 67 (88%) CNS ...
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First report in South America of companion animal colonization by the USA1100 clone of community acquired meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ST30) and by the European clone of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius (ST71)
... All eight MRSS isolates, from both dogs and cats, clus- tered into the same PFGE clone type (Figure 1A; lanes 1– 4) and generated amplification products for both DCS and mecI primers described in 2007 by Milheiriço et ...
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Interventions for the eradication of meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in people with cystic fibrosis
... for meticillin-resistant Staphylo- coccus aureus ...(S. aureus). Meticillin is an antibiotic that is no longer in clinical use, but MRSA is resistant to antibiotics within ...
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Community acquired infections in older patients admitted to hospital from care homes versusthe community: cohort study of microbiology and outcomes
... especially meticillin resistance among S. aureus isolates across all specimen types, and resistance to several empiric antibiotics among Gram negative isolates in urine cultures ...antibiotic ...
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Interaction of chlorhexidine with trisEDTA or miconazole in vitro against canine meticillin-resistant and susceptible Staphylococcus pseudintermedius isolates from two UK regions
... Belgium), S. aureus American Type Culture Collection (ATCC, Teddington, UK) 25923 and ...S. aureus ATCC 29663) and one MSSA isolate previously reported with high MIC values for miconazole ...
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Prevalence of Exfoliative and Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin Genes in Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains Isolated from Clinical Specimens in Makkah, Saudi Arabia
... of S. aureus to methicillin was confirmed by detection of the mecA gene to ensure the fact that only MRSA strains were included in the study, then followed by detection of the of the eta, etb and tst ...30 ...
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Origin and Evolution of European Community Acquired Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
... The mean nucleotide substitution rate within CC80 using the Bayesian coalescent method was 1.29 ⫻ 10 ⫺6 substitutions per site per year (95% highest posterior densities [HPDs], 1.10 ⫻ 10 ⫺6 to 1.51 ⫻ 10 ⫺6 ), which ...
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Antibacterial and antibiofilm activities of quercetin against clinical isolates of Staphyloccocus aureus and Staphylococcus saprophyticus with resistance profile
... analyzed S. aureus clinical isolates from infections in patients of a university hospital in the city of Londrina, from 2001 to 2004, where 70% of the strains were resistant to oxacillin and none of ...
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STUDY OF VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE AMONG STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS
... in S. aureus was reported in a report from Japan 17,18 ...Since S. aureus is seen as one of the major pathogens that affect humans and has a high occurrence and ability to cause diseases 21 ...
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Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Adaptation to Human Keratinocytes
... with S. aureus USA300 (MOI of 10) in media containing fibronectin or PBS plus fibronectin for 2 h, treated with gentamicin as described above, and allowed to incubate for 24 ...
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A Shared Population of Epidemic Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus 15 Circulates in Humans and Companion Animals
... specific immune evasion genes sak, chips, and scin), with 76.1% Sa3 positive, cf. 90.2% (Fisher’s exact test, P ⫽ 0.022), and the plasmid borne erm(C) erythromycin resistance gene, with 37% erm(C) positive, cf. 62% ...
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Characterization of fatty acid resistant Staphylococcus aureus mutants containing SNPs in cvfA
... for S. aureus and therefore S. aureus can survive under these ...in S. aureus and therefore, S. aureus is not thought to be capable of using exogenous fatty acids ...
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Rapid Differentiation of Methicillin Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus from Methicillin Resistant S aureus and MIC Determinations by Isothermal Microcalorimetry
... This study also showed that calorimetry works for the MIC determination of cefoxitin for the tested strains. Because cal- orimetry provides continuous real-time data, it was even pos- sible to see effects of cefoxitin ...
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Antibiotic resistance of microbial contaminations isolated from husbandry animals and foodstuffs
... Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermis isolated from sheep’s ...were resistant to ampicillin, piperacillin and amikacin ...not resistant to antibiotics which we used in this ...
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