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...

conclusions in our study, inducible clindamycin resistance rate was 4%; so it is necessary to conduct d-test regularly by disc diffusion for this bacterium. resistance to erythromycin, clindamycin, ciprofloxacin and gentamicin was significantly higher in mrsa isolates than methicillin susceptible staphylococcus aureus (mssa), although the methicillin resistance prevalence was low. background st...

BACKGROUND The rapid emergence and spread of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has raised considerable public health concern in both developed and developing countries. The current study aimed to address the extent of this phenomenon in healthy preschool children of a developing country. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a prospective study from April...

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INTRODUCTION Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections are a common, serious problem in pediatrics. OBJETIVE To describe antibiotic resistance in community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus (SA) bacteremias. To compare the characteristics of SA bacteremias in terms of methicillin resistance. MATERIALS AND METHODS Prospective cohort enrolled between January 2010 ...

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 and cefoxitin disks with consideration of the pres...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has been a major problem in the worldwide health care centres and institutions since the last 60 years . It has been a major pathogen responsible for nosocomial infections and recently has created life-threatening situations. Penicillin resistance was seen a few years after the drug was introduced. To solve this problem another drug of the penicillin ...

background methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) remains a significant public health problem and treatment challenge. objectives this study was conducted to determine the frequency, molecular types, and drug resistance of s. aureus isolated from nasal carriers in two teaching hospitals (hajar and kashani) in shahrekord, southwestern iran. methods in this cross-sectional study, 262 ...