Background & Aims of the Study: Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is considered as a major pathogen in public health concern. The objectives of this study were to firstly determine antibiotic sensitivity among Staphylococcus aureus isolated from traditional Iranian white cheese during 2015 from Hamedan province of Iran; and secondly to estimate the presence of ...

OBJECTIVES We conducted this study to assess the rate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization and its association with infection among infants hospitalized in methicillin-resistant S aureus-endemic NICUs. METHODS Between March 2003 and February 2004, surveillance culture specimens from the nares, postauricular areas, axillae, and umbilicus of infants admitted to the NICUs ...

conclusions since it is highly important to rapidly detect mrsa isolates, especially in nosocomial infections, phenotypic methods may certainly be useful for this purpose. resistance to methicillin in s. aureus shows a substantially increased ability in turanose metabolism. it is concluded that fermentation of turanose at 0.7% dilution could be a rapid detection method for primary screening of ...

The Tigecycline Evaluation and Surveillance Trial is a global surveillance study monitoring the efficacy of tigecycline and comparators against clinically important pathogens. Between 2004 and 2010, 3126 isolates of Staphylococcus aureus were collected from 66 centers in 13 countries in Latin America; of these, 1467 (46.9%) were resistant to methicillin. The main contributors of S. aureus isola...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES : After studying this article, the participant should be able to: 1. Identify risk factors associated with community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 2. Recognize the clinical presentation of patients with community-acquired methicillin-resistant S. aureus. 3. Understand the treatment and indications for decolonization of patients who have community-acqu...

Background and Objectives: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major cause of nosocomial and community acquired infections. Detection of MRSA in laboratories is very important for treatment and appropriate infection control. The aim of this study was to evaluate cefoxitin disk diffusi...

Staphylococcus aureus (including Methicillin-resistant S. aureus) and coagulase negative Staphylococcus spp (including methicillin-resistant coagulase negative) permanently or transiently colonize humans and act as sources of complicated skin and soft tissue infections, bacteraemia and infective endocarditis. They also cause chronic infection of indwelling medical devices. Treatment of these in...

background and objectives: methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) is a major cause of nosocomial and community acquired infections. detection of mrsa in laboratories is very important for treatment and appropriate infection control. the aim of this study was to evaluate cefoxitin disk diffusion method for detection of mrsa and comparison of this method with other conventional method...

background: methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) is resistant to most antibiotics and is an important pathogen of nosocomial infections. the prevalence of community (ca-mrsa) and hospital acquired methicillin-resistant s. aureus (ha-mrsa) infection is increased. in this study we investigated the frequency of mrsa colonization and its antibiotic susceptibility in students of rafsan...