Hospital Acquired MRSA Penumonia

Which antibiotic for hospital acquired pneumonia caused by MRSA?

MRSA as a cause of lung infection including airway infection, community-acquired pneumonia and hospital-acquired pneumonia.

Staphylococcus aureus has been recognised as a cause of community-acquired pneumonia, albeit uncommon, and an important cause of healthcare-associated (HA) pneumonia, including ventilator-associated pneumonia. Resistance of S. aureus to methicillin developed shortly after its introduction into clinical practice. Since then, methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) has predominantly been a feature...

Community-acquired MRSA: a practitioner's guide.

Community-Acquired MRSA: A Burgeoning New Epidemic

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been a recognized pathogen for almost half a century. Until recently, MRSA was confined predominately to hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare facilities that care for debilitated and chronically ill patients (Healthcare-Associated, or HAMRSA). In the last decade, however, MRSA has caused rapidly increasing numbers of invasive infe...

frequency distribution of hospital-acquired mrsa nasal carriage among hospitalized patients in west of iran

background hospital patients who are nasal carriers of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) are a high-risk potential threat to themselves and other hospitalized patients. the high antibiotic resistance of these isolates renders the treatment of related infections difficult. objectives the present study, for the first time investigated the prevalence of mrsa isolates in nasal carr...