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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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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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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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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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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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Prevalence of nasal carriage rate for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and its antibiotic susceptibility profiles in health care workers at Nanakaly Hospital, Erbil, Iraq

Zanco Journal of Medical Sciences, 2018
Background and objective: Healthcare workers have been identified as the source of infection in many outbreaks of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the hospital environment. Therefore, we aimed to demonstrate the prevalence of nasal carriage
Nasik Shawkat Dogramachy
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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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Prevalence of qacA/B genes and mupirocin resistance among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates in the setting of chlorhexidine bathing without mupirocin [PDF]

, 2016
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine the frequency of qacA/B chlorhexidine tolerance genes and high-level mupirocin resistance among MRSA isolates before and after the introduction of a chlorhexidine (CHG) daily bathing intervention in a surgical intensive ...
Bommarito, Kerry M, Burnham, Carey-Ann D, Kennedy, Colleen R, Mazuski, John E, Munigala, Satish, Prager, Martin, Wallace, Meghan A, Warren, David K   +7 more
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Nasal Carriage Rate of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus among Health Care Workers at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal

Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2017
Background: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most common causes of nosocomial infections. Due to its multidrug resistant nature; infections due to Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus are often very difficult to treat ...
Sabita Khatri, Narayan Dutt Pant, Raju Bhandari, Krishma Laxmi Shrestha, Chandrika D Shrestha, Nabaraj Adhikari, Asia Poudel   +6 more
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