Mupirocin is a topical antimicrobial agent utilized in treatment of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Mupirocin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus is increasingly being reported in many parts of the world in the context of its widespread use. The objectives of this study were to determine the susceptibility of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates to mupiroci...

background and objective: community-acquired methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus ( ca-mrsa) is increasingly reported worldwide. we aimed to determine the frequency of invasive ca-mrsa in children admitted to the pediatric wards of imam reza and ghaem hospitals of mashhad, iran. materials and methods: in this retrospective study, data regarding s. aureus isolates from pediatric patients’...

  Background and Objective: Methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus is an increasingly important clinical problem. A chromosomal gene, mecA, mediates resistance to penicillinase-resistant penicillins such as methicillin and oxacillin in Staphylococcus aureus. We evaluated the validity of disk diffusion test by using oxacillin, methicillin an...

Background & Aims: Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most common pathogens in nosocomial infections. Vancomycin is the most important therapeutic drug of choice for treatment of infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains. Therefore, vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) or vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) strains are warning...

background: staphylococcus aureus can cause infections with a wide spectrum of illnesses ranging from benign skin infections to bloodstream infection leading to mortality. antimicrobial resistance especially methicillin resistance in s. aureus (mrsa strains) is currently problematic. the emergence of mrsa infections has developed in both the healthcare and the community settings.  the aim of th...

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus has become an enormous problem for health care providers because it is hard to treat and is sometimes called super bug. Early and accurate detection of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus is essential for the treatment of overt infections and the implementation of infection control practices. The phenotypic detection of mecA-mediated resis...

This single-center, case-control study documents a relative increase in methicillin resistance among 48 cases of Staphylococcus aureus-associated postpartum mastitis during 1998-2005. Of 21 cases with methicillin resistance, 17 (81%) occurred in 2005. Twenty (95%) isolates contained the Staphylococcus cassette chromosome mec type IV gene; this suggests that the increase is due to community-acqu...

BACKGROUND Staphylococcus aureus is the most commonly isolated organism from the different clinical samples in hospital. The emergence and dissemination of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and growing resistance to non-beta-lactam antibiotics is making treatment of infections due to this organism increasingly difficult. METHODS This study was conducted to determine the frequ...

Human infections involving microorganisms i.e. bacteria, fungi, viruses, cause serious infections in tropical and subtropical countries of the world. In recent years, a multidrug resistance microorganism is on rise due to indiscriminate use of commercial drugs (Gutmann et al., 1988; Mohanasundari et al., 2007). Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram positive cocci arranged in clusters and is ubiquitou...