Molecular characterization of epidemic ciprofloxacin- and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains colonizing patients in an intensive care unit
| Autor: | I A al-Obaid, L. E. Jacob, Edet E. Udo, T.D. Chugh |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
| Předmět: |
Microbiology (medical)
Staphylococcus aureus Meticillin Penicillins Drug resistance Staphylococcal infections medicine.disease_cause Disease Outbreaks Microbiology law.invention Methicillin Antibiotic resistance Anti-Infective Agents Ciprofloxacin law medicine Humans Cross Infection Molecular Epidemiology business.industry Staphylococcal Infections biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition bacterial infections and mycoses medicine.disease Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Intensive care unit Drug Resistance Multiple Electrophoresis Gel Pulsed-Field Intensive Care Units Kuwait Methicillin Resistance business Research Article medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 34:3242-3244 |
| ISSN: | 1098-660X 0095-1137 |
| DOI: | 10.1128/jcm.34.12.3242-3244.1996 |
| Popis: | Eighteen methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) samples isolated from patients and the environment in an intensive care unit (ICU) during a routine surveillance were tested for antimicrobial resistance and typed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Three pulsed-field patterns were observed. Sixteen were ciprofloxacin resistant and had identical pulsed-field patterns. The results suggested that a ciprofloxacin-resistant MRSA clone had contaminated the environment and spread among patients. This study demonstrates the application of infection control surveillance combined with strain typing in detecting MRSA colonization in the ICU where it was not known to exist. |
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