Antimicrobial drug resistance of Staphylococcus aureus in dairy products

Occurrence, characterization and antimicrobial resistance of enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus isolated from meat and dairy products.

Staphylococcus aureus is considered to be one of the leading causes of food-borne illnesses. Milk, dairy products and meats are often contaminated with enterotoxigenic strains of this bacterium. Foodstuff contamination may occur directly from infected food-producing animals or may result from poor hygiene during production processes, or the retail and storage of foods, since humans may carry th...

Antimicrobial resistance mechanisms of Staphylococcus aureus

The miracle of antibiotic discovery has been threatened by the emergence of superbugs. One of those superbugs, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is now responsible for more deaths per year in the United States than HIV. The added healthcare costs for fighting MRSA infections is in the billions of dollars per year worldwide. Plus, the danger of not having effective antimicrobial...

Antimicrobial resistance: the example of Staphylococcus aureus.

abandon their belief that, given the vast array of effective antimicrobial agents, virtually all bacterial infections were treatable. Their optimism was shaken by the emergence of resistance to multiple antibiotics among such pathogens as Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The evolution of increasingly antimicrobialresistant ...

Prediction of Staphylococcus aureus antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial resistance of Staphylococcus aureus: genetic basis.

INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................. 89 Emergence of Multiresislant S. aureus.................................................................................... 89 Genetic Nature of Antimicrobial Resistance ...——....——......—.—......—..—..—.——.—..—.—...—. 90 TRANSFER OF RESISTANCE GENES IN STAPHYLOCOCCI......