Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia
Genetic and Molecular Predictors of High Vancomycin MIC in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Isolates
... from Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB), in- cluding treatment with vancomycin, particularly in methicillin- susceptible ...S. aureus (MSSA) bacteremia ...MSSA bacteremia ...
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Daptomycin versus placebo as an adjunct to beta lactam therapy in the treatment of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... Background: Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia is associated with significant morbidity and ...of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia as monotherapy but has not been shown to be ...
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Frequency of Infective Endocarditis Among Infants and Children With Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia
... All patients underwent at least 1 echocardiogram within 72 hours of the initial positive blood culture for S aureus. Echocar- diograms obtained by the treating team for clinical management after the identification ...
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High Levels of mecA DNA Detected by a Quantitative Real Time PCR Assay Are Associated with Mortality in Patients with Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia
... The levels of mecA DNA were significantly higher in the nonsurvivors than in the survivors during the three periods of bacteremia examined (Fig. 2E and F), and during these peri- ods, the concomitant cultures of ...
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Impact of ethnicity and socio economic status on Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia incidence and mortality: a heavy burden in Indigenous Australians
... An episode of SAB was defined as a single positive blood culture bottle for S. aureus in a patient that had symptoms and signs consistent with an infection. A new episode in the same patient was recorded if the ...
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Characterization of Infecting Strains and Superantigen-Neutralizing Antibodies in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia
... strain. SAg-induced proliferation in the presence of serum, quantified by calculating the area under the proliferation curve (AUC) and expressed as percentages of the control without human serum, for all data sets (IDUs, ...
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Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia with iliac artery endarteritis in a patient receiving ustekinumab
... Staphylococcus aureus and imaging showed a thickening of the aortic wall ventral the bifurcation above the right internal iliac artery, resembling an acute bacterial ...
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Frequency of Susceptibility Testing for Patients with Persistent Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia
... in staphylococcus species ...S. aureus, have a propensity to develop antimicrobial resistance following long-term therapy (5, 6) or prolonged persistence in the host, possibly due to selective pres- sure ...
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A genome wide association study of variants associated with acquisition of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in a healthcare setting
... Our inability to identify common variants significantly associated with SAB when there is considerable evidence of a host genetic influence on acquisition of SAB may result from a number of factors. First, our sample ...
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Distinct T helper cell responses to Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia reflect immunologic comorbidities and correlate with mortality
... Blood samples were drawn into ethylenediaminetetra- acetic acid tubes at three distinct time points (2–4 days, 6–9 days, and 12–18 days after the first day of positive S. aureus blood cultures). It was necessary ...
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Comparative effectiveness of nafcillin or cefazolin versus vancomycin in methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia
... S. aureus (MRSA) has led clinicians to select antibiotics that have coverage against MRSA, usually vancomycin, for empiric therapy for suspected staphylococcal ...S. aureus (MSSA) strains are identified by ...
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Utility of qSOFA score in identifying patients at risk for poor outcome in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia
... death was observed among those who continued on the same treatment despite lack of early response compared to those who switched to alternative therapy (mortality 38% vs 10%, p = 0.13). In addition, every additional day ...
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A 34-Day-Old With Fever, Cerebrospinal Fluid Pleocytosis, and Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia
... decreased oral intake for 1 day. He was difficult to console at home. He had decreased oral intake without emesis, diarrhea, or a change in urine output. He did not have rhinorrhea, cough, or increased work of breathing ...
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Protection against Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia–induced mortality depends on ILC2s and eosinophils
... S. aureus (11, 12). In this mouse model, S. aureus causes significant tissue damage in peripher- al organs, such as the lung, liver, and heart, reminiscent of that found in patients with systemic ...S. ...
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Role of SCCmec Type in Outcome of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia in a Single Medical Center
... have bacteremia until death and censored ...of bacteremia was iden- tified based on the presence of local signs and the isolation of ...S. aureus from the implicated source as previously described ...
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Methicillin-Resistant and Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia and Meningitis in Preterm Infants
... not collected. Information regarding antimicrobial susceptibility and mo- lecular characteristics of the SA iso- lates and antimicrobial management of the infants was not available and therefore could not be included in ...
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Epidemiology of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia in Children
... MRSA bacteremia across 3 tertiary care children’s hospitals from 2007 to ...persistent bacteremia >3 days, recurrence of bacteremia within 30 days, or attributable 30-day ...
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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
... Several viruses (influenza virus, adenovirus, mumps virus, varicella zoster virus [2, 3], rotavirus [4], measles virus [5], and hepatitis A virus [6]) and bacteria (Escher- ichia coli [7], Legionella pneumophila [8], and ...
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Antibody responses to protein A in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and endocarditis
... aureus IE, patients with bacteremia alone, and uninfected controls; ài to compare SpA and teichoic acid antibody levels in patients with S.. aureus bacteremia; and iii to evaluate the di[r] ...
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Mortality predictors of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: a prospective multicenter study
... Results: A total of 255 episodes of SAB were enrolled. The median age of the patients was 59 years. Fifty-five percent of the episodes were considered as primary SAB and vascular catheter was the source of 42.1 %. ...
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