The first vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from patients in Thailand.

نویسندگان

  • Aroonlug Lulitanond
  • Chulapan Engchanil
  • Prajuab Chaimanee
  • Malai Vorachit
  • Teruyo Ito
  • Keiichi Hiramatsu
چکیده

We screened 533 and 361 methicillin (meticillin)-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated in a university hospital in 2002 and 2003 and in 2006 and 2007, respectively, and identified 4 (0.8%) of the strains in the first group and 8 (2.2%) of the strains in second group as heterogeneous vancomycin-resistant S. aureus (heterogeneous VISA) strains and 3 (0.8%) of the strains in the second group as VISA strains. This is the first report of VISA strains isolated from patients in Thailand.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of clinical microbiology

دوره 47 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009