Molecular Epidemiology of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Costa Rican Children

Autor:	Isaac P. Thomsen, Elizabeth J. Saye, C. Buddy Creech, Natalia Jimenez-Truque, Marco Luis Herrera
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Costa Rica DNA Bacterial Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Microbiology (medical) Genotype Bacterial Toxins Population Exotoxins medicine.disease_cause Staphylococcal infections Article Microbiology Leukocidins Prevalence medicine Humans Infection control Prospective Studies Child education Molecular Epidemiology education.field_of_study Molecular epidemiology business.industry SCCmec Chromosomes Bacterial Staphylococcal Infections biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition bacterial infections and mycoses medicine.disease Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Molecular Typing Infectious Diseases Staphylococcus aureus Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health business
Zdroj:	Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 33:e180-e182
ISSN:	0891-3668
DOI:	10.1097/inf.0000000000000291
Popis:	We collected all Staphylococcus aureus isolates from the National Children's Hospital in Costa Rica to evaluate the prevalence and molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Of 299 S. aureus isolates, 61% were MRSA. Most MRSA isolates (94.5%) carried SCCmec IV, and 45.6% carried Panton-Valentine leukocidin-encoding genes. The high prevalence of MRSA in this population highlights the need for improvement of antibiotic prescription and infection control measures.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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