[PDF] Top 20 Contribution of Panton-Valentine leukocidin in community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis.

... RNA in 1X first-strand reaction ...strains of USA300 (LAC and SF8300) and USA400 (MW2) and their respective isogenic Dpvl mutant strains were cultured to mid-exponential or stationary phases of ... See full document

... diversity of regional evolutionary histories is reflected in the various factors that have been suggested to contribute to the emergence and establishment of community-associated ... See full document

... Staphylococcus aureus is a major cause of infections in both hospitals and communities, causing diseases ranging from mild skin infections to fulminant septicemia, and becomes increasingly ... See full document

... for Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) (42). Leukocidin was irst associated with skin and sot tissue infection by Panton and Valentine in ...transduction of a ... See full document

... presence of clonal type IV in all MRSA ...analysis of chromosomal DNA revealed a similarity to the OSPC clone in two ...isolates. Of the two patients infected with CA-MRSA similar to ... See full document

... Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is an emergent pathogen in ...prevalence of CA-MRSA. We report here the first well-characterized ... See full document

... role of HCWs on MRSA transmission is the source, vector or victim, which is an issue needed to be elucidated and Figure ...characterization of the 12 MRSA ...and resistant to ...the ... See full document

... reports of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in livestock, particularly pigs, and in individuals with contact to livestock provided the first evidence ... See full document

... collaboration in the clinical outcome studies, we want to thank the BURDEN study group: Walter Koller and Jutta Berger from Austria; Jan Nagler and Claudine Icket from Belgium; Smilja Kalenic and Jasminka Horvatic ... See full document

... cal of Staphylococcus were inoculated in ...detection of MRSA, by assessing resistance to 25 µg/ml of methicillin, which was used to isolate pure ...S. aureus and kept ... See full document

... number of patients included was low, probably due to underreport- ing; fourth, the study was retrospective, and this may have caused some unknown bias; finally, the diagnosis of ‘oxa- zolidinone use’ did ... See full document

... Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a versatile pathogenic bacterium (Schmidt et ...number of heal thcare-associated and community-acquired infections (Kurlenda and Grinholc, ... See full document

... kept in contact precautions in order to take cultures of invasive devices, lesion and rectal ...remain in precaution until ...cultures of invasive devices, lesions and rectal ...remain ... See full document

... for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection treatment; rifampicin has interesting antibioilm properties, but its efectivity remains poorly ...and in combination ... See full document

... employed in farming [6,9]. Airborne emission of MRSA from livestock farms has been reported, but only in very low concentrations [34]; epidemiological investigations in Germany have not ... See full document

... provide฀opportunities฀for฀quick฀and฀reliable฀identification฀ of฀ MRSA฀ isolates฀ at฀ a฀ local฀ ...use฀ of฀molecular฀approaches฀is฀limited฀in฀some฀Latin฀Ameri- can฀ countries,฀ especially฀ in฀ ... See full document

... infections. In 1959, methicillin, the synthetic penicillin, was introduced while by 1960, methicillin-resistant ...S. aureus strains were ...result of S. aureus acquiring ... See full document

... Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive bacterium that mainly colonizes the nares and is considered a human pathogen that shows increasing incidence in patients with prolonged hospitalization, ... See full document

... objective of this work was to establish the foundations for the development of a novel antiseptic formulation based on natural ...activities of three industry by-products (biomasses) were studied and ... See full document

... diameters of 13mm by a 1µg-oxacillin disk test (resistance breakpoint ≤10mm) and two (NT05 and NT80) showed small individual colonies or light growth within the inhibition zone >10mm and could have been ... See full document