Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) types and Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) gene carriage were compared among suspected community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus MRSA (CA-MRSA) and health care-associated MRSA (HA-MRSA) isolates. CA-MRSA isolates carried the SCCmec type IV complex, and most were PVL positive. The HA-MRSA isolates carried the SCCmec type II ...

Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) have been isolated from a number of livestock species and persons involved in animal production. We investigated the prevalence of LA-MRSA in fattening turkeys and people living on farms that house fattening turkeys. Eighteen (90%) of 20 investigated flocks were positive for MRSA, and on 12 of the farms 22 (37·3%) of 59 ...

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) are increasingly causing infective endocarditis over the past decade. Here we report a healthy man who developed a severe acute infective endocarditis with systemic embolism caused by CA-MRSA. The strain was recovered from repeated blood cultures and was characterized using molecular detection and genotyping. The S. aure...

Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is one of the most important bacterial opportunistic pathogens in humans. It easily adapts to the various environmental conditions. Very important is rapid development of resistance to different antimicrobial agents. Especially important is the resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics (so called methicillin-resistant S. aureus: MRSA). MRSA strains differ according...

results out of 238 samples, 5.88% were resistant to quinupristin-dalfopristin; 5.46% to linezolid; 60.92% to co-trimoxazole; 31.93% to doxycycline; 18.90% to tigecycline; 5.04% to vancomycin; 9.24% to mupirocin; 43% to oxacillin and 46.21% of our isolates were resistant to cefoxitin. conclusions coming across isolates with reduced susceptibility to quinupristin-dalfopristin and resistant to lin...

Background: Activity of norA efflux pump is one of the antibiotic resistance mechanisms in ciprofloxacin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. In this study, the effect of Artemisia ciniformis extract on reducing the expression of norA efflux pumps gene in ciprofloxacin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates was studied. Materials and Methods: Ciprofloxacin resistant S. aureus isolates, were trea...