Objective(s): Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the major health hazards and became of greater public health concern since the emergence of community-acquired MRSA. This work aimed to study the prevalence of mecA, femA, femB, lukS-PV, lukF-PV (PVL), intI, and intII genes among community-acquired (CA) hospital-acquired (HA) MRSA to increase vi...

background and objective: community-acquired methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus ( ca-mrsa) is increasingly reported worldwide. we aimed to determine the frequency of invasive ca-mrsa in children admitted to the pediatric wards of imam reza and ghaem hospitals of mashhad, iran. materials and methods: in this retrospective study, data regarding s. aureus isolates from pediatric patients’...

background and objective: urinary tract infection (utis) is one of the most common diagnosed infectious diseases. in order to determine the spectrum of bacterial etiology and antibiotic resistance pattern of the uropathogens that cause community acquired uti, a retrospective study was performed in research center of reference laboratories of iran on urine samples of referred patients during a 4...