OBJECTIVES To determine the rate of Staphylococcus aureus faecal carriage in 101 wild small mammals in Spain and to characterize the isolates obtained. METHODS Faecal samples were seeded on mannitol salt agar and ORSAB plates. The presence of the resistance genes mecA, mecC and blaZ and the new blaZ allotype associated with staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) XI (blaZ-SCCmecXI) wa...

We noticed that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) isolates yielded side-scatter (SSC) and fluorescence intensity (FI) differences on flow cytometry (FCM) following incubation in oxacillin broth. The purpose of this study was to determine whether MRSA and MSSA could be reliably differentiated by FCM. S. aureus isolates were incubated ...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) carriage may protect against nosocomial methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) acquisition by competing for colonization of the anterior nares. DESIGN Prospective cohort and nested case-control study. SETTING Swiss university hospital. PATIENTS All adult patients admitted to 14 wards of the general ...

In the human lower respiratory tract, influenza A (INFA) can activate an inflammatory response that interferes with the innate immune response to bacterial pathogens, increasing the probability of subsequent infection by opportunistic organisms such as methicillin-susceptible (MSSA) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).1,2 Some hypervirulent strains of communityacquired and ho...

The accuracy and rapidity of total iron content (TFE) analysis can accelerate ore production. Although the conventional TFE detection methods are accurate, its speed presents difficulties in meeting production requirements. Therefore, this paper proposes a method based on reflectance spectroscopy (wavelength range: 340–2500 nm) remote sensing. Firstly, spectral experiments were conducted using ...

BACKGROUND Although methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) native bone and joint infection (BJI) constitutes the more frequent clinical entity of BJI, prognostic studies mostly focused on methicillin-resistant S. aureus prosthetic joint infection. We aimed to assess the determinants of native MSSA BJI outcomes. METHODS Retrospective cohort study (2001-2011) of patients admitted ...

Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) attributed to clonal complex (CC) 398 and exhibiting spa-type t571 received attention in Europe and in the USA for being associated with severe infections in humans. As this spa-type is exhibited by livestock-associated (LA) Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) as well, it is important to discriminate LA- and human-derived strains by easy t...