background staphylococcus aureus is associated with different infections ranging from skin and soft tissue infections to endocarditis and fatal pneumonia. s. aureus is still the most common bacterial species isolated from inpatient specimens and the second most common from outpatient specimens. today, methicillin resistant s. aureus (mrsa) isolates are present in the hospitals of most countries...

conclusions the cefoxitin disk diffusion method showed the best results when compared to oxacillin disk, similar to results from detecting the meca gene in pcr as a golden test. studies on mrsa that carry the luk-pv gene should continue to provide significant insight into the prevalence and epidemiology of these important resistant pathogens. also, the rate of pvl gene-producing isolates showed...

Objectives: Tigecycline is a new glycylcycline group antibiotic with broad-spectrum activity. In the present study we report on in vitro activity of tigecycline as well as the comparator antimicrobials linezolid and quinupristin/dalfopristin against methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains isolated from burn wounds in Tr...

Objective(s)Staphylococcus aureus is a prevalent pathogen worldwide. Methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA), which is usually multi-resistant in hospitals, has been a daunting challenge for clinicians for more than half a century. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to determine the relative frequency (RF) of MRSA in different regions of Iran.Materials and MethodsSearch terms...

Staphylococcus aureus is considered one of the most frequently occurring communityand hospi-tal-associated pathogens. Infectious diseases caused by Staphylococcus aureus are in various forms, ranging from mild skin infection, endocarditis, to fulminant septicemia. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal carriage rates...

By analyzing the colonization of the anterior nares in cardiothoracic surgery patients on admission, nasal cocolonization by methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci was detected in 8/235 (3.4%) specimens. Consequently, in a low-methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) setting, a molecular MRSA screening test targeting the mecA gene ...

Staphylococcus aureus is a common pathogen responsible for health-care-associated infections as well as community acquired ones. It is the etiological factor of a wide spectrum of infections. Therapeutic problems are caused by resistance of S. aureus to many antibiotics, specifically to methicillin (methicillin-resistant S. aureus, MRSA). In such cases a limited spectrum of antibiotics may be u...

Mupirocin is a topically applied drug that is very active in the eradication of nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). However, studies designed to compare mupirocin treatment with other antimicrobial regimens are lacking. We therefore conducted an open, prospective, randomized, controlled trial to compare the efficacy and safety of mupirocin versus those of oral ...