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Prevalence of Vancomycin Resistance in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus [PDF]

Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014
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 ...
Parviz Mohajeri, Abbas Farahani, Abolfazl Davoodabadi, Omar Ghaderi, Mohsen Rahnema   +4 more
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Effectiveness of polyhexanide, chlorhexidine with neomycin and mupirocin for nasal methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) decolonisation: non-inferiority RCT (TIDE)

Health Technology Assessment
Background The bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections. These infections are difficult to treat when there is increasing resistance to penicillin, known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Elizabeth Cook, Sophie James, Joanne Laycock, Ashley Scrimshire, Alex Mitchell, Heather Leggett, Alison Booth, Karen Glerum-Brooks, Catriona McDaid, Paul Baker, Maria Cann, Vicky Hanlon, Mike Reed, Martin Kiernan, Arabella Scantlebury, Luke Strachan, David Tate, David J Torgerson, Catherine E Hewitt   +18 more
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus [PDF]

Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2018
Since the 1960s, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has emerged, disseminated globally and become a leading cause of bacterial infections in both health-care and community settings. However, there is marked geographical variation in MRSA burden owing to several factors, including differences in local infection control practices and ...
Lee, Andie S.; de Lencastre, Herminia; Garau, Javier; Kluytmans, Jan; Malhotra-Kumar, Surbhi; Peschel, Andreas; Harbarth, Stephan   +7 more
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Characterization and Comparison of 2 Distinct Epidemic Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clones of ST59 Lineage. [PDF]

, 2013
Sequence type (ST) 59 is an epidemic lineage of community-associated (CA) methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates. Taiwanese CA-MRSA isolates belong to ST59 and can be grouped into 2 distinct clones, a virulent Taiwan clone and a ...
A Bera, A Holmes, AE Fossum, AM Milstone, B Loffler, BA Diep, BE Gonzalez, BE Gonzalez, C Goerke, C Weidenmaier, Chih-Jung Chen, CJ Chen, CJ Chen, CJ Chen, CJ Chen, CJC de Haas, Clemens Unger, CP Montgomery, dS Aires, FC Tenover, FJ Chen, Friedrich Götz, GM Pupo, GW Coombs, J Bubeck Wardenburg, J Bubeck Wardenburg, J Kaneko, JM Voyich, Jodi A. Lindsay, K Georgiades, KB Kiser, LY Hsu, M Labandeira-Rey, M Otto, MR Mulvey, MZ David, N Zetola, Paul J. Planet, PE Fournier, PL Ho, R Wang, S Herbert, SHM Rooijakkers, SL Kaplan, T Jin, T Jin, V Merhej, WJ Wannet, WJB van Wamel, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Y Gillet, YC Huang, YC Huang, YC Huang, YC Huang, Yhu-Chering Huang   +55 more
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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

Saudi Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences, 2016
Abdulaziz Al-Quorain
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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004
Fred C. Tenover, Michele L. Pearson
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5.MOLECULAR STUDY OF BIOFILM PRODUCTION BY METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS

The Iraqi Journal of Medical Sciences, 2020
Background:Staphylococci are a group of bacteria that cause diseases ranging from minor skin infections to life-threatening bacteremia. Biofilm formation was determined by a number of methods and is available to detect the capability of staphylococci to ...
Dlnya A. Mohamad
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Prevalence of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Antibiotic Susceptibility Pattern in a Tertiary Hospital in Nepal

Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2018
Background: Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a global health challenge nowadays creating problem in antibiotic therapy. This study was aimed to generate resistance pattern of Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus to various ...
Laxmi Kant Khanal, Ram Prasad Adhikari, Ankita Guragain   +2 more
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Comparing the Outcomes of Ceftaroline plus Vancomycin or Daptomycin Combination Therapy versus Vancomycin or Daptomycin Monotherapy in Adults with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia—A Meta-Analysis

Antibiotics, 2022
Introduction: Combination therapy with daptomycin plus ceftaroline to treat methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia has been reported to reduce methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia-related mortality.
Chienhsiu Huang, Ihung Chen, Lichen Lin
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Emerging Multidrug Resistance of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Hand Infections. [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has been the most commonly identified pathogen in hand infections at urban centers, but the evolving antibiotic sensitivity profiles of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus are not known. The
Bender, Samantha, Fowler, John R, Gaughan, John, Ilyas, Asif M, Samuelsen, Brian T, Schaffer, Alyssa A, Tosti, Rick   +6 more
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