Epidemiological typing of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from Pakistan and India

Epidemiological typing of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from children in Taiwan.

BACKGROUND A 1400-bed tertiary medical center in northern Taiwan was used to conduct an epidemiological study of children hospitalized with community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infection during a 5-year period. METHODS Nineteen previously healthy children with predominantly skin and soft-tissue CA-MRSA infections were enrolled into the study. Seventeen CA-M...

Prevalence of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

In the Netherlands, meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is detected on pork and veal farms, and hence farmers working with MRSA-positive animals are at an increased risk of being colonised. Recently retail meat products have been found positive for MRSA. Therefore, we tested the prevalence of MRSA among employees who work in the cold meat processing industry and in institutional k...

Community-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is endemic in hospitals worldwide, and causes substantial morbidity and mortality. Health-care-associated MRSA infections arise in individuals with predisposing risk factors, such as surgery or presence of an indwelling medical device. By contrast, many community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) infections arise in otherwise healthy individuals who do ...

Differences in expression of virulence genes amongst invasive and colonizing isolates of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Molecular epidemiology of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): think regionally but use globally uniform typing languages.

A Jurke ([email protected])1, R Köck2, K Becker3, S Thole1, R Hendrix4, J Rossen4, I Daniels-Haardt5, A W Friedrich4 1. Department of Infectiology and Hygiene, NRW Centre for Health, Münster, Germany 2. Institute of Hygiene, University Hospital Münster, Germany 3. Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Münster, Germany 4. Department of Medical Microbiology, University ...