The treatment of MRSA skin and soft tissue infections in adults will be reviewed here. The treatment of invasive MRSA infections, the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance, epidemiology of MRSA infection, and general issues related to skin and soft tissue infections are discussed separately. (See "Treatment of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in adults" and "Microbi...

BACKGROUND Staphylococcus aureus, a mainly acquired hospital infection is responsible for many suppurative lesions and has demonstrated the ability of developing resistance to many antimicrobial agents leading to life threatening infections and long hospital stay. OBJECTIVE To determined the prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus in suppurative lesions of the surgic...

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The article presents a synthetic molecular characterization of the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and describes the most important community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) clones that circulate nowadays in the world: the main molecular and epidemiological characteristics, as well as notions related to the clinic of infections produced by these clones...

background and objective: the d-test is performed by placing clindamycin and erythromycin impregnated disks at a standard distance on the agar plate then looking for the flattening of inhibition zone around the clindamycin disk. a positive d-test indicates clindamycin inducible resistance and also predicts treatment failure possibility of this antibiotic in clinic. prevalence of staphylococcal ...

introduction: drug resistant staphylococci are the most important agents of nosocomial infections. in this survey, effect of different antibiotics on these bacteria and their drug resistance was investigated. methods: the study included 500 strains of staphylococci. minimum inhibitory concentrations of all antibiotics was determined by the broth macro dilution technique and standard methods fro...

Autolysis plays an essential role in bacterial cell division and lysis with β-lactam antibiotics. Accordingly, the expression of autolysins is tightly regulated by several endogenous regulators, including ArlRS, a two component regulatory system that has been shown to negatively regulate autolysis in methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) strains. In this study, we found that inacti...

background and objectives: methicillin resistance staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) and coagulase negative staphylococci (mrcons) have recognized as the major cause of nosocomial infections that threat the burn patient’s life. the aims of this study were to determine the frequency of mrsa and mrcons and their antibiotic resistance patterns among burn patients in a burn center in ahvaz, iran. materia...