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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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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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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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ANTIMICROBIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY PATTERN OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS STRAINS IN ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN

Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2021
Objective: To investigate the prevalence of S. aureus in hospitalized patients of Islamabad. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Study Duration: Pakistan Institute of Medical Science, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Lab, COMSATS Institute ...
Yasir Rasheed, Kaleem Imdad, Raheela Yasmin, Ambreen Gul, Aneela Jamil, Ummara Aslam   +5 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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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Nepal

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2021
Staphylococcus aureus is both a frequent commensal and a leading cause of endocarditis, bacteremia, osteomyelitis and skin and soft tissue infections and device-related infections.
Lok Bahadur Shrestha, Gopiram Syangtan, Ajaya Basnet, Krishna Prasad Acharya, Arun Bahadur Chand, Khilasa Pokhrel   +5 more
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Incidence and treatment of methicillin-resistant S. aureus infection in cystic fibrosis patients: a cohort study

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2017
In Brazil the knowledge about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in cystic fibrosis patients is scarce. This study aimed to determine the incidence of respiratory tract colonization and the identification rates after a standardized ...
Paloma Horejs Bittencourt, Carlos Sidney Silva Pimentel, Bianca Sampaio Bonfim, Paulo José Marostica, Edna Lúcia Souza   +4 more
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Low MRSA prevalence in horses at farm level [PDF]

, 2012
Background: In Europe, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) belonging to the clonal complex (CC) 398 has become an important pathogen in horses, circulating in equine clinics and causing both colonization and infection.
Butaye, Patrick, Feryn, Isabelle, Gasthuys, Frank, Haesebrouck, Freddy, Hermans, Katleen, Lipinska, Urszula, Martens, Ann, Van den Eede, Annelies, Vanderhaeghen, Wannes   +8 more
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Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Ethiopia: a meta-analysis

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2016
Background The burden of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a major public health concern worldwide; however the overall epidemiology of multidrug resistant strains is neither coordinated nor harmonized, particularly in developing countries ...
Setegn Eshetie, Fentahun Tarekegn, Feleke Moges, Anteneh Amsalu, Wubet Birhan, Kahsay Huruy   +5 more
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