SCCmec types
Recognition of SCCmec Types According to Typing Pattern Determined by Multienzyme Multiplex PCR Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
... for SCCmec type I isolates. SCCmec sequences are composed of various genes and mobile genetic elements as insertion sequence elements and transposons (7, ...discrete SCCmec types have been ...
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Carriage of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococci and Their SCCmec Types in a Long Term Care Facility
... their SCCmec elements were ...the SCCmec types was diverse: 20 (33%) were of type IV, 11 (18%) of type V, 4 (6%) of type I or IA, 3 (4%) of type II, and 23 (38%) of new types (with six ...
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A Review of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCCmec) Types in Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci (CoNS) Species
... CoNS, SCCmec has been studied less frequently than Staphylococcus aureus (coagulase-positive ...detected SCCmec type I to VIII as well as several new combination patterns in CoNS species, particularly ...
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Distribution of SCCmec types in Staphylococcus aureus Strains Isolated from the Pediatrics Suffered From Severe UTIs
... other types of -lactam ...of SCCmec types in ...of SCCmec types I, II, III, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd and ...of SCCmec types I, II, III, Iva, IVb, IVc, IVd and V in the ...
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... associated SCCmec types in staphylococcal carriage is extremely important particularly among haemodialysis patients who are prone to ...of SCCmec types among nasal carriage of MR-CoNS from ...
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Molecular Epidemiology of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Zürich, Switzerland (2003): Prevalence of Type IV SCCmec and a New SCCmec Element Associated with Isolates from Intravenous Drug Users
... different SCCmec types. Here, it has acquired a new SCCmec type N1, which differs from those previously reported (type II and type IV) to be associated with ...an SCCmec type N1 like that of ...
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Predominance of Clones Carrying Panton Valentine Leukocidin Genes among Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains Isolated in Japanese Hospitals from 1979 to 1985
... IV SCCmec element, which was identified primarily in C-MRSA strains, or a type I SCCmec element, which was identified in the first reported MRSA strains in ...among SCCmec types carried by ...
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Widespread Dissemination in The Netherlands of the Epidemic Berlin Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clone with Low Level Resistance to Oxacillin
... different SCCmec types (II and IV) and ST45 was found among both MRSA and ...harbored SCCmec type IV. Recent data have indicated the presence of SCCmec type IV in community-acquired MRSA (12, ...
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Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns and Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec Types of, as Well as Panton Valentine Leukocidin Occurrence among, Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Children and Adults in Middle Tennessee
... the SCCmec types I, II, III, and IV and to detect the PVL gene as described previously (10), with ...for SCCmec types I, II, III, and IV and the PVL gene were modified from those published ...
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National Surveillance of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in China Highlights a Still Evolving Epidemiology with 15 Novel Emerging Multilocus Sequence Types
... spa types. Typing of 1,141 MRSA isolates yielded 54 spa types in ...spa types, SCCmec types, and STs (Table ...spa types, constituting ...two types carried SCCmec ...
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Differences in gram positive bacterial colonization and antimicrobial resistance among children in a high income inequality setting
... Our study demonstrates that subpopulations from differ- ent SES strata within the same city may have different exposures or risk factors for bacterial transmission and drug resistance. Children living in middle/low SES ...
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Contemporary Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clones in Hong Kong
... (SCCmec) types. Nine PFGE types, A to I, were ...PFGE types A to E, had previously been identified as the major types at one of the hospitals from 1988 to ...to SCCmec type III; ...
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Comparative and molecular analysis of MRSA isolates from infection sites and carrier colonization sites
... of SCCmec [4]. SCCmec types I-III are generally detected in hospital acquired MRSA (HA- MRSA), which are the strains reported to cause hospital associated infections and outbreaks ...Other ...
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<p>Characterization of <em>SCCmec</em>, <em>Spa</em> Types and Multidrug Resistant of Methicillin-Resistant <em>Staphylococcus aureus</em> Isolates in Ahvaz, Iran</p>
... isolates, SCCmec type I (n=3/50,6%), type II (n=17/50, 34%), type III (n=22/50,44%), and type IV (n=6/50,12%) were the most ...the SCCmec types II and III was signi fi cantly higher than other ...
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Comparison of Molecular Typing Methods for Characterization of Staphylococcus epidermidis: Proposal for Clone Definition
... of SCCmec from the S. epidermidis chromosome, the rate of SCCmec acquisition by ...and SCCmec typing are ...specific SCCmec type is associated with a strain with a characteristic SmaI PFGE ...
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Reliability of the BD GeneOhm Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Assay in Detecting MRSA Isolates with a Variety of Genotypes from the United States and Taiwan
... of SCCmec types [types I, II, III, IV, V, V (5C2&5) , VI, and VIII, composite SCCmec types, and an untypeable ...named SCCmec VII according to the revised nomenclature ...
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... Two types of SCCmec elements were found in ...two SCCmec elements appears to be common in MR-CoNS which strongly suggests that new variants may be present in CoNS and may have a different impact on ...
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EVALUATION OF COMMERCIAL CHROMOGENIC MEDIA FOR THE DETECTION OF METHICILLIN RESISTANT Staphylococcus aureus
... 10/11 SCCmec types (I"VIII, X and XI); (ii) mecA-positive (n = 148) and mecC-positive (n = 13) MRSA isolates representative of a range of genotypes and comprising 149 MRSA isolates with oxacillin MICs ...
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Molecular and Epidemiological Evaluation of Strain Replacement in Patients Previously Harboring Gentamicin Resistant MRSA
... harboring SCCmec I was followed by the isolation of replacement GS-MRSA strains harboring SCCmec types other than type I were eligible for inclusion in a nested case-crossover study to investigate ...
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Epidemiology and Outcomes of Community Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection
... Microbiological data methods. The initial identification of isolates and iden- tification of their in vitro susceptibilities were determined by the clinical micro- biology laboratories at each participating institution ...
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