[PDF] Top 20 Epidemiology and outcome of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus health care associated pneumonia

... In the current study, MRSA-HCAP seemed to have a predilection toward the elderly. We found that 88.9% had at least one comorbid condition, of which diabetes mellitus, heart failure, and vascular disease were the most ... See full document

... community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) and community-acquired methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MSSA) infec- ... See full document

... were associated with treatment failure in univariable analyses with a P value ...were associated with treatment failure in primary analyses (critical illness, catheter-related bloodstream infection, and ... See full document

... intensive care unit (ICU) patients with MRSA VAP who were treated with linezolid or vanco- ...Ford Health System (Detroit, MI, USA), University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital (Miami, FL, USA), Summa ... See full document

... respectively (11, 12). The staphylococcal PVL genes are carried by PVL phages that target S. aureus. Three groups of structurally distinct PVL phages have been described to date (16). The increas- ing carriage of ... See full document

... Purpose: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is recognized as an important cause of not only healthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP) but also community-acquired ... See full document

... S. aureus and ...S. aureus mediated by the production of hydrogen peroxide ...S. aureus colonization seemed restricted to hosts without HIV-1 infec- tions and specific to ... See full document

... infections. Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of bacteremia, and has become more com- mon in recent years with the increase in invasive procedures, indwelling catheters, and prosthetic devices, as ... See full document

... The algorithmic extraction of CA-MRSA cases and controls from EHRs presents challenges and new possibilities for phenotypic-genotypic association studies. Our algorithm represents, to our knowledge, a first attempt at ... See full document

... coronary care unit (CCU) were tested positive during their weekly routine MRSA screen (nose, axilla, groin) three days after their admission to the unit when they were tested ...were resistant only to ... See full document

... Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) used the standardized method devel- oped by the Nosocomial Infections Section, National Microbiology Division, Health Canada (13). Electrophoresis of the SmaI-digested DNA ... See full document

... hospital-acquired pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus, complicated skin and skin structure infections (SSSIs), uncomplicated SSSIs caused by methicillin-susceptible ...S. aureus ... See full document

... MRSA pneumonia and those with single infiltrate on chest radiography were at low ...non-nosocomial pneumonia was ...of pneumonia is likely higher than what would be found in typical community ...MRSA ... See full document

... Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bloodstream infections (BSI) are classified epidemiologically as health care- associated hospital onset (HAHO)-, ... See full document

... Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a leading cause of disease, such as skin and soft tissue in- fection (SSTI), pneumonia, bloodstream infection (BSI), osteomyelitis ... See full document

... Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a strain of Staphylococcus aureus that is resistant to methicillin and other related antibiotics of the ... See full document

... Regarding the possible risk factors, although the differ- ences were not significant, the prevalence of S. aureus nasal carriage was higher in older clinicials and those with more years of podiatry experience. ... See full document

... Although Staphylococcus aureus can be regarded as human commensal, it is a potential lethal opportunistic pathogen causing varieties of community-acquired and hospital acquired bacterial ...meningitis, ... See full document

... establish methicillin resistance in the community at a high ...S. aureus strains of other sequence types (such as CC8 and CC1) already present in the community ... See full document

... This is the first study providing insights into antimicrobial resistance and clonal distribution of S. aureus in St. Kitts and Nevis, and one of the few studies using WGS to understand the population structure ... See full document