MUPIROCIN RESISTANCE
Association of High Level Mupirocin Resistance and Multidrug Resistant Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus at an Academic Center in the Midwestern United States
... of mupirocin resistance among MRSA isolates in the era of epidemic CA-MRSA, we screened clinical MRSA isolates from the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) prospectively collected in 2008; 3 ...
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Phenotypic and genotypic determinants of mupirocin resistance among <em>Staphylococcus aureus</em> isolates recovered from clinical samples of children: an Iranian hospital-based study
... of mupirocin resistance among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin susceptible ...methicillin resistance pheno- type (MRSA) was identified using a 30 µg cefoxitin ...of ...
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Multiplex PCR for Simultaneous Identification ofStaphylococcus aureus and Detection of Methicillin and Mupirocin Resistance
... methicillin resistance such as femA (5, 13, 29, 30) or femB (5, ...antibiotic resistance genes (3, ...and mupirocin resistance, namely, mecA and ileS-2, ...
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New Quadriplex PCR Assay for Detection of Methicillin and Mupirocin Resistance and Simultaneous Discrimination of Staphylococcus aureus from Coagulase Negative Staphylococci
... and mupirocin-resistant ...methicillin resistance), and mupA (a determinant of mupirocin resistance) genes to identify most staphylococci, to discriminate ...and mupirocin-sensitive and ...
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Multicenter Study To Determine Disk Diffusion and Broth Microdilution Criteria for Prediction of High and Low Level Mupirocin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
... performing mupirocin susceptibility testing may be to identify individual patients who are at risk for mupirocin decolonization failure or to perform surveillance studies for emerging mupirocin ...
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Phenotypic and molecular characterization of Staphylococcus aureus isolates expressing low and high level mupirocin resistance in Nigeria and South Africa
... high-level resistance (MIC 8–256 and >256 mg/ L, respectively) ...low-level resistance to mupirocin is related to alterations in the host isoleucyl- tRNA synthetase (IRS) ...somal mupirocin ...
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DISSEMINATION OF HIGH LEVEL MUPIROCIN RESISTANT CC22 MRSA IV IN SAXONY
... mupirocin resistance. After the prevalence of mupA, encoding high-level mupirocin resistance, among all MRSA from a tertiary care centre in the German state of Saxony was approximately 1% for ...
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Epistasis analysis uncovers hidden antibiotic resistance associated fitness costs hampering the evolution of MRSA
... the mupirocin resistance (mup R )-conferring SNP in the ileS gene (G1762 T, which confers the V588F change in the protein) and other poly- morphic loci within a collection of ST239 MRSA isolates ...R ...
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Emergence of a Staphylococcus aureus Clone Resistant to Mupirocin and Fusidic Acid Carrying Exotoxin Genes and Causing Mainly Skin Infections
... Mupirocin resistance was rare in Greece in previous ...a resistance rate of 2% among 1,200 strains collected in 2002 from four Greek hospitals, and PFGE showed that all of those strains belonged to ...
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Methicillin resistant and susceptible Staphylococcus aureus: Appraising therapeutic approaches in the Northwest of Iran.
... of mupirocin has been reported to encourage the emergence of mupirocin-resistant ...Though mupirocin is used for a long time in our clinical set up, only one strain showed non ...of mupirocin ...
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Identification o f Clinical Methicillin and Mupirocin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by Multiplex-PCR
... and mupirocin resistance, namely, mecA and ileS-2, ...between mupirocin susceptibility testing and PCR results for our included ...the mupirocin MICs appeared to be due to the selection of ...
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Screening and treatment for Staphylococcus aureusin patients undergoing hemodialysis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... There are some limitations in this meta-analysis. The type and duration of HD access were not provided in most studies. Thus, the differences in these potential risk factors for S. aureus catheter-site infection and ...
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Mupirocin for Staphylococcus aureus Decolonization of Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
... receive mupirocin to prevent 1 clinical SA ...although mupirocin resistance has been uncommon to date in NICUs with decolonization programs, it has occurred in other inpatient ...
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Novel Multiplex PCR Assay for Detection of Chlorhexidine Quaternary Ammonium, Mupirocin, and Methicillin Resistance Genes, with Simultaneous Discrimination of Staphylococcus aureus from Coagulase Negative Staphylococci
... universal mupirocin-chlorhexidine decolonization of all admitted intensive care unit patients rather than MRSA screening with targeted treat- ments, which raises a serious concern about the selection of ...
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A five year outbreak of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus phage type 53,85 in a regional neonatal unit
... of mupirocin cream and hand ...the mupirocin eradication programme was not repeated in 1995, when isolation rates increased ...sharply. Mupirocin resistance was not detected during the ...
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Evaluation of mupirocin E test for determination of isolate susceptibility: comparison with standard agar dilution techniques
... exhibited mupirocin resis- tance (15). Despite low incidences of mupirocin resistance, the topical use of any antibiotic will invariably be associated with concerns about the emergence of ...to ...
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Mupirocin Induced Mutations in ileS in Various Genetic Backgrounds of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
... Topical mupirocin is widely used for the decolonization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ...low-level mupirocin resistance. Twenty-four mupirocin-sensitive MRSA isolates ...
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<p>Molecular Characterization, Drug Resistance and Virulence Analysis of Constitutive and Inducible Clindamycin Resistance <em>Staphylococcus aureus</em> Strains Recovered from Clinical Samples, Tehran – Iran</p>
... vancomycin, mupirocin, tigecycline, and fusidic acid was determined using the broth microdilution ...high-level mupirocin resistance (LLMUPR, HLMUPR) were de fi ned if MIC values of 8 – 256 µg/mL and ...
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... high-level resistance (>1,000mg/L) to mupirocin has been reported in Coagulase-positive and Coagulase-negative Staphy lococci, together with an evidence that the resistance was present within the ...
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Mupirocin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... of mupirocin for long periods in health care settings [8, ...high-level mupirocin resistance (HmupR - minimum inhibitory con- centration [MIC]: ≥512 μg/ml), while that of low-level mupirocin ...
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