[PDF] Top 20 Molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from a Brazilian university hospital

... presence of the SCCmec IV ...replacement of BEC with EMRSA-15 has been reported in ...percentage of SCCmec IV MRSA isolates (46%) was described in a Swiss university hospital, with the ... See full document

... powers of primers were evaluated according to the revealed banding profiles that provided genotyping of these ...choice of primers to be used in the RAPD analysis is the most critical factor and ... See full document

... samples of human milk, from five Brazilian cities (100 from each) to detect methicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) producing ... See full document

... Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, ...six of them being ICU. The MRSA isolates were obtained from patients admitted to the ICU consecutively, between 2005 and 2010, from ... See full document

... isolates from Brazilian patients, showed a high frequency of MRSA carrying SCCmec type ...abilities of MRSA when in hospital ...transfer of this element, enabling the increase ... See full document

... Staphylococcus aureus has been implicated in a variety of infections in human and animals (Bartlett and Hulten, 2010; Gu et ...treatments of such infections become difficult due the emergence ... See full document

... dendrogram of the pulsed-field gel elec- trophoresis patterns was generated using a Dice coefficient (Biogene software; Vilbert- Loumart, ...representation of the similar- ... See full document

... fifty-one methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains have been isolated from patients admitted in tertiary care hospitals in two metropolitan areas (Campinas City ... See full document

... determinants of the types of infections caused by Staphylo- coccus aureus and paediatric groups remain among the most commonly affected ...goal of this study was to characterise virulence ... See full document

... the Hospital of the Federal University of Paraíba, a reference hospital for the surrounding area, lo- cated at João Pessoa, state of Paraíba, ...isolates of S. ... See full document

... number of isolates were non-susceptible to daptomycin. Interestingly, most of the dap- tomycin non-susceptible MRSA isolates were associated with the USA100 (ST5-II), the same lineage that presented six ... See full document

... prevalence of SCCmec IV in Brazilian communities, but Reinert et ...the Brazilian endemic clone (BEC). hree of 50 selected samples carried the cassette type IVc and the multilocus sequence ... See full document

... pattern of 61S. aureus carriage isolates obtained from a surgical patient cohort (n = 192) in ...3.9% of the patients in the cohort studied were colonized by MRSA, Heysell et ...prevalence ... 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, ...spectrum ... See full document

... one of the most common, with a prevalence that ranges from 4% to 10% ( Singh et ...cause of global hospital admissions and account for more than half of non-traumatic lower limb ... See full document

... healthy adults, 93 males and 157 females, in- cluding fi rst- and second-year undergraduate students in pharmacy, nursing, dentistry and medicine at a Brazilian university. Their ages ranged from 18 ... See full document

... a Brazilian study published in 2005, Ribeiro et ...cases of CA-MRSA infections in Brazil. The MRSA isolates were collected from two patients pre- senting skin and soft tissue infections, and ... See full document

... Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is a global concern ...multi-drug resistant nature, treatment with conventional antibiotics does not assure desired clinical ... See full document

... irrespective of their epidemiological ...surveillance of MRSA strains within a hospital over a relatively short span of time ...length of time and large area over which the bacterial ... See full document

... lar molecular characteristics irrespective of their environment origin as well as the discovery of international clonal lineages demonstrate the dissemination ability of MRSA and the risk ... See full document