Objective: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) widely distributed in hospitals around the world. There is strong relationship between disease development and S. aureus nasal carriage. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and epidemiology of nasal colonization with S. aureus and MRSA in the community of Duhok city, Iraq. Methods: 489 students aged 16 to18 years wer...

STUDY OBJECTIVE We sought to determine the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among emergency department (ED) patients with skin and soft tissue infections, identify demographic and clinical variables associated with MRSA, and characterize MRSA by antimicrobial susceptibility and genotype. METHODS This was a prospective observational study involving a convenience...

BACKGROUND Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL-)producing Staphylococcus aureus is emerging as a serious problem worldwide. There has been an increase in the incidence of necrotizing lung infections in otherwise healthy young people with a very high mortality associated with these strains. Sporadic severe infectious complications after incision of Bartholin's abcesses have been described but invol...

BACKGROUND In Latin America, few studies have been carried out on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage in the pediatric population. We conducted a survey of nasal S. aureus carriage in neonates and in children attending the pediatric outpatient clinics in a large Brazilian city with high antimicrobial consumption. METHODS Pernasal swabs of neonates were collected upon admissio...

Milk and its products can be frequently contaminated with enterotoxigenic methicillin-resistant S. aureus, in such a case, it causes various diseases, especially staphylococcal food poisoning. In the present study, 100 sample materials (50 goat milk, 25 cream, cheese) were collected from 65 livestock farms Erzurum. All samples analyzed tested selectively according to EN ISO 6888-1 procedure sta...

conclusions community acquired (ca)-mrsa is becoming a public health concern in many parts of the world, including asian countries. the variable prevalence of luk-pv-positive mrsa isolates in different regions and their rather high frequency in pneumonia necessitate the application of rapid diagnostic methods such as real-time pcr to improve treatment effectiveness. materials and methods in tot...

BACKGROUND Prostatic abscesses are an uncommon disease usually caused by enterobacteria. They mostly occur in immunodeficient patients. It is thus extremely rare to have a Staphylococcal prostatic abscess in a young immunocompetent patient. CASE PRESENTATION A 20-year-old patient was treated with ofloxacin for a suspicion of prostatitis. An ultrasonography was performed because of persisting ...