conclusions more than a quarter of the strains harboured sccmec type i. staphylococcus aureus isolates were clustered into eight predominant pfge pulsotypes. the current study should be considered preliminary and further use of molecular studies to monitor the epidemiology of mrsa and its evolution is highly recommended. materials and methods dna was extracted from 114 frozen s. aureus strains ...

BACKGROUND Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) poses a major threat to public health worldwide. There are relatively few studies addressing the molecular epidemiology of MRSA in the Philippines. METHODS This study characterized MRSA isolates in terms of their antimicrobial susceptibility profile, the SCCmec type, and the presence of lukF-lukS genes for Panton-Valentine leukocid...

Staphylococcus aureus is an important cause of bloodstream infections worldwide. We examined the prevalence of genes that encode erythromycin ribosome methylase and bacterial toxins in S. aureus collected from bloodstream infections. Sixty different S. aureus isolates were obtained from blood cultures of patients who were admitted to a Teaching Hospital in Tianjin from January 2006 to August 20...

Staphylococcus aureus and MRSA are important clinical pathogens representing a serious public health problem. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of S. methicillin-resistant (MRSA) nasal carriage among dental students, identify factors that influence this carriage, characterize MRSA. A 25.2% 0.86% was estimated, respectively, SCCmec Type VI, identified in all isolated The low colonizat...

Background: Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are rolled in severe infections animals and nosocomial humans. Given that other than Staphylococcus aureus often reported only as CoNS medical diagnosis laboratories, this study aimed to determine the exact species of type clinical samples. Objectives: This also evaluate antibiotic resistance, ability carry cfr, qacA/B, mecA, vanA genes, diver...

BACKGROUND A high proportion of staphylococci isolated from pigs affected with exudative epidermitis were found to be resistant to β-lactam antimicrobials. The primary objective of this research was to investigate and characterize β-lactam resistance in Staphylococcus hyicus, Staphylococcus aureus and other staphylococci isolated from these pigs. RESULTS The antimicrobial resistance patterns ...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to investigate the clinical and molecular epidemiology and biofilm formation of Staphylococcus aureus (SA) isolated from pediatricians in China. METHODS SA strains were isolated from Beijing Children's hospital from February 2016 to January 2017. Isolates were typed by multilocus sequence typing (MLST), spa and SCCmec typing (for Methicillin-resistant SA [MRSA] onl...

INTRODUCTION Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major cause of both hospital- and community-acquired infections worldwide. However, data about the molecular epidemiology of MRSA in North Africa are still scarce. METHODOLOGY All MRSA isolates recovered between January 2006 and July 2011 from one Algerian hospital were genetically and phenotypically characterized. RESULTS...