OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of Methicillin resistance Staphylococcus aureus infection in major cities of Pakistan. SETTING Various laboratories of the country with one as the central Laboratory. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seven hundred and ninety two consecutive clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus were collected from 8 laboratories all over Pakistan i.e. Karachi, Peshawar, Lahore...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The present review describes the literature about the prevention of Staphylococcus aureus infections in surgery, published from August 2006 to January 2008, and puts it into perspective. RECENT FINDINGS To prevent Staphylococcus aureus infections after surgical procedures, three methods were described, that is, isolation precautions after methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus...

background and aims: staphylococcus aureus is one of the important pathogens around the world. the present investigation was carried out to study the distribution of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (sccmec) types and antibiotic resistance properties in methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus isolated from isfahan hospitals. materials and methods: a total of 250 clinical specimens wer...

patients and methods two-hundred and fifty-five clinical specimens were collected from four major provinces of iran. samples were cultured and the mrsa strains were subjected to polymerase chain reaction (pcr). the patterns of antibiotic resistance were determined using the disk diffusion method. results seventy-four out of 255 (29.01%) clinical samples were positive for mrsa. of the 74 mrsa st...

background: macrolides, lincosamides and type b streptogramins (mlsb) are commonly used for the treatment of staphylococcal infections. inducible mlsb resistance (imlsb) cannot be identified by standard methods of antibiotic susceptibility testing. d-test appears to be a reliable indicator of imlsb strains. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of clindamycin resistance phenotyp...

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...

Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been recently growing problem in small animal clinical practice due to increasing resistance to multiple number of antimicrobials. Present study reports about the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of MRSA isolated from the dogs with recurrent pyoderma. Based on the cultural and biochemical studies 12 isolates were identified as Staphyloc...

Background: Staphylococcus aureus is the most common bacterial pathogen responsible for acute as well as many chronic infections in humans and animals as well. The emergence of antibiotic resistance among these pathogens is an issue of global worry. Among them, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is staphylococci showing multiple drug resistance to a large number of antimicrobial...

Transformation of a type I SCCmec element into Staphylococcus aureus yielded highly oxacillin-resistant transformants with a reduced growth rate. Faster-growing variants could again be selected at the cost of reduced resistance levels, demonstrating an inverse correlation between oxacillin resistance levels and growth rate.