Use of atmospheric non-thermal plasma as a disinfectant for objects contaminated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Antibiotic and Disinfectant Resistance of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus non-gonococcal urethritis.

A 25-year-old unmarried man presented with urethral discharge and pain during micturition for the last 2 days. He had had a single unprotected penovaginal sexual encounter with a female sexworker 5 days earlier. He had a history of many heterosexual exposures with multiple partners during the past 5 years, but no history of any previous sexually transmitted diseases. Examination revealed copiou...

Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Etiology Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram positive, coagulase positive coccus in the family Staphylococcaceae. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains are resistant to methicillin and essentially all other beta-lactam antibiotics. MRSA isolates are genetically heterogeneous. 1 Some strains, which are called epidemic strains; are more prevalent and can spread within or between hospitals an...

Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunistic pathogen often carried asymptomatically on the human body. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains have acquired a gene that makes them resistant to all beta-lactam antibiotics. Hospital-associated strains of this organism are serious nosocomial pathogens that have become resistant to most common antibiotics, and treatment can be challenging. Com...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

received much attention over the past 30 years because of its increasing incidence and the morbidity and excess hospital stay length associated with MRSA infection. Th e current controversy about the eff ectiveness of control measures, notably screening, derives from the confl icting results of available studies, lack of well-designed controlled studies, and concomitant use of several intervent...