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Clindamycin Resistance Detection among MRSA at a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Cross-sectional Study [PDF]

National Journal of Laboratory Medicine
Introduction: Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise, posing a global threat to the success of modern surgical procedures. A common and notorious superbug causing community and hospital-acquired infections is Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (
V Aruna, VM Theeba, S Arul Selvan, Rajesh Sengodan   +3 more
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Evaluation of Oxacillin and Cefoxitin Disk Diffusion and Microbroth Dilution Methods for Detecting mecA-Mediated β-Lactam Resistance in Contemporary Staphylococcus epidermidis Isolates

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2019
Methicillin (β-lactam) resistance in Staphylococcus epidermidis is mediated by the mecA gene, with resistance reported to be as high as 90%. The goal of this study was to evaluate oxacillin and cefoxitin disk diffusion (DD) and broth microdilution (BMD ...
S. Naccache, Katrina Callan, C. Burnham, Meghan A. Wallace, L. Westblade, J. Dien Bard   +5 more
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EUCAST disc diffusion criteria for the detection of mecA-Mediated β-lactam resistance in Staphylococcus pseudintermedius: oxacillin versus cefoxitin.

Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2019
OBJECTIVES Until recently, the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) recommended the cefoxitin disc to screen for mecA-mediated β-lactam resistance in Staphylococcus pseudintermedius.
R. Skov, A. Varga, E. Matuschek, J. Åhman, D. Bemis, B. Bengtsson, M. Sunde, R. Humphries, L. Westblade, L. Guardabassi, G. Kahlmeter   +10 more
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Genetic Diversity among Staphylococcus aureus Isolates Showing Oxacillin and/or Cefoxitin Resistance Not Linked to the Presence of mec Genes

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2018
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates lacking mec genes (n = 32), collected from Belgian hospitals, were characterized for their β-lactamase production and the presence of mutations in pbp genes, the pbp4 promoter, and genes involved in ...
M. Argudín, S. Roisin, L. Nienhaus, M. Dodémont, R. Mendonça, C. Nonhoff, A. Deplano, O. Denis   +7 more
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Distribution of SCCmec Elements and Presence of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis Isolated from Clinical Samples in a University Hospital of Isfahan City, Iran [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2017
Introduction: Coagulase Negative Staphylococcus (CoNS) is considered as a major pathogen of nosocomial infections among immunosuppressed patients. Aim: The aim of this study was to identify the types of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCCmec)
Mehrdad Halaji, Ashkan Karimi, Parisa Shoaei, Mohamm Adreza Nahaei, Farzin Khorvash, Behrooz Ataei, Majid Yaran, Seyed Asghar Havaei   +7 more
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Evaluation of oxacillin and cefoxitin disks for detection of resistance in coagulase negative staphylococci

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2007
Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus spp. was considered nonpathogenic until the emergence of multiresistance and the demonstration of their participation as infectious agents.
Ana Lúcia Souza Antunes, Carina Secchi, Keli Cristine Reiter, Leandro Reus Rodrigues Perez, Ana Lúcia Peixoto de Freitas, Pedro Alves d'Azevedo   +5 more
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Public Health Risk Assessment of the Door Handles of the Community Pharmacies in Qassim Region, Saudi Arabia

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2020
Door handles are being reported to harbor a diverse group of microorganisms, mainly bacteria. Presence of pathogenic and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the door handles carry risk to the health of the public. For this reason, a study was carried in the
Raya Alothaim, Ahmad Almatroudi, Monir Uddin Ahmed, Masood Alam Khan, Rejo Jacob Joseph, Abdullah Alharbi, Mohammed Alkathlan, Khaled S. Allemailem   +7 more
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Detection of Oxacillin/Cefoxitin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus Present in Recurrent Tonsillitis

Microorganisms, 2023
Background: Recurrent tonsillitis is one of the most common diseases in childhood, caused many times by ß-lactam-resistant S. aureus. The objective of this study was to investigate an alternative method to identify resistance to oxacillin/cefoxitin in S.
Aline Cristine Magalhães Costa Messias, Aline Rodrigues Gama, Letícia Suriano de Almeida Prado, Paulo Alex Neves da Silva, Arlindo Rodrigues Galvão Filho, Clarimar José Coelho, Melissa Ameloti Gomes Avelino, José Daniel Gonçalves Vieira, Lilian Carla Carneiro   +8 more
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Pharmacokinetics, efficacy and tolerance of cefoxitin in the treatment of cefoxitin-susceptible extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing Enterobacterales infections in critically ill patients: a retrospective single-center study

Annals of Intensive Care, 2022
Background Cefoxitin is active against some extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales (ESBL-PE), but has not been evaluated so far in the intensive care unit (ICU) settings. Data upon its pharmacokinetics (PK), tolerance and efficacy in
Paul Chabert, Judith Provoost, Sabine Cohen, Céline Dupieux-Chabert, Laurent Bitker, Tristan Ferry, Sylvain Goutelle, Jean-Christophe Richard   +7 more
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Detection of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus isolated from pediatric patients: is the cefoxitin disk diffusion test accurate enough?

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
We evaluated the performance of several methods for the detection of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus using 101 clinical S. aureus isolates from pediatric patients in a tertiary hospital in Brazil; 50 isolates were mecA-positive and 51 ...
M.J. Mimica, E.N. Berezin, R.L.B. Carvalho, I.M. Mimica, L.M.J. Mimica, M.A.P. Sáfadi, E. Schneider, H.H. Caiaffa-Filho   +7 more
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