Background & Aims: Prevalence of community and hospital acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is increasing. The primary reservoir is the anterior nares; and nasal carriage is a risk factor for infection in a variety of populations. Infection due to hospital-acquired colonization is different from community acquired in clinical manifestations and antibiotics susc...

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to demonstrate the characteristics of qacA/B-positive Staphylococcus aureus in China. METHODS One hundred and forty-five MRSA and 178 MSSA from clinical specimens from seven hospitals in different regions of China, 70 MRSA from superficial sites of patients and 106 MRSA from environmental samples from an ICU were collected and screened for the presence of th...

conclusion a high rate of mrsa in both community- and hospital-acquired infections were observed. background staphylococcus aureus (s.aureus) is an importantpathogen in human infections.some strains of s.aureusare methicillin-resistant (mrsa) andcause hospital- and community-acquired infections in children. the aims of this study were to determine nasalcarriage rate of s. aureus and susceptibil...

patients and methods two-hundred and fifty-five clinical specimens were collected from four major provinces of iran. samples were cultured and the mrsa strains were subjected to polymerase chain reaction (pcr). the patterns of antibiotic resistance were determined using the disk diffusion method. results seventy-four out of 255 (29.01%) clinical samples were positive for mrsa. of the 74 mrsa st...

introduction: methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) is responsible for an increasing number of serious hospital- and community-acquired infections. usa300 is known to be the most common cause of community-acquired infections, but recently there have been some reports on hospital-acquired infections caused by this strain. methods: totally 171 isolates of s. aureus were collected fro...

The Tigecycline Evaluation and Surveillance Trial is a global surveillance study monitoring the efficacy of tigecycline and comparators against clinically important pathogens. Between 2004 and 2010, 3126 isolates of Staphylococcus aureus were collected from 66 centers in 13 countries in Latin America; of these, 1467 (46.9%) were resistant to methicillin. The main contributors of S. aureus isola...

Staphylococcus aureus (including Methicillin-resistant S. aureus) and coagulase negative Staphylococcus spp (including methicillin-resistant coagulase negative) permanently or transiently colonize humans and act as sources of complicated skin and soft tissue infections, bacteraemia and infective endocarditis. They also cause chronic infection of indwelling medical devices. Treatment of these in...

background staphylococcus aureus (s aureus) is one of the important agents of many infections in hospitals and society. increasing s aureus resistance to antibacterial drugs is one of the major health concerns, therefore studying antibiotic resistance of s aureus is very important and it has a main role in preventing creation of resistant strains. microorganisms in 71 cases (%14) of blood cultu...