OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of simple control measures on the infection status and characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus including susceptibility patterns among health professionals and patients in a teaching hospital. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted from September 2013 to January 2014, and comprised samples collected from healthcare perso...

Nosocomial infection caused by methicillin-resistant staphylococci poses a serious problem in many countries. The aim of this study was to rapidly and reliably detect methicillin-resistant-staphylococci in order to suggest appropriate therapy. The presence or absence of the methicillin-resistance gene in 115 clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus and 50 isolates of Coagulase Negative Staphy...

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...

staphylococcus epidermidis is the most important member of coagulase negative staphylococci responsible for community and hospital acquired infections. most clinical isolates of s. epidermidis are resistant to methicillin making these infections difficult to treat. in this study, correlation of methicillin resistance phenotype was compared with methicillin resistance (meca) gene carriage in 55 ...

background and objectives: methicillin resistance staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) and coagulase negative staphylococci (mrcons) have recognized as the major cause of nosocomial infections that threat the burn patient’s life. the aims of this study were to determine the frequency of mrsa and mrcons and their antibiotic resistance patterns among burn patients in a burn center in ahvaz, iran. materia...

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 ...

In The Netherlands a new reservoir of MRSA has recently been identified in pigs and veal calves upon which the 'Dutch Working Party on Infection Prevention' modified the national MRSA guidelines. In June 2006 a new group at risk of MRSA carriage was included, consisting of patients that reported direct exposure to living pigs or veal calves. After the implementation of this modification in a tr...

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...