articles about MRSA in Abstracts

There are only few data on the persistence and transmission of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) of the clonal complex (CC) 398 among veterinarians and their household members.

This assessment reflects the current situation and should be repeated if pleuromutilin consumption increases substantially, resulting in increased prevalence of mobile, easily transmissible resistance mechanisms.

Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398 (LA-MRSA CC398) is causing an increasing number of skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) in Denmark and other European countries with industrial pig production. Yet, its impact on MRSA bloodstream infections (BSIs) has not been well studied.

This study showed a massive occurrence of ST398-MRSA in two independent swine farms.

In summary, this report demonstrates that decontamination protocols similar to those used here can lead to successful elimination of contaminating MRSA and ESBL-E in pigs and the stable environment. Nevertheless, decontamination protocols do not prevent the acquisition of new MRSA strains.

A total of 152 pork samples were collected in markets and supermarkets in Ho Chi Minh City. Antimicrobial susceptibility of the isolates to antimicrobial agents was determined.

A single descendant of a PVL-positive methicillin-sensitive ancestor circulating in sub-Saharan Africa rose to become the dominant CA-MRSA clone in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.

The ability of an anti-MRSA β-lactam antibiotic to stimulate allosteric opening of the active site opens an unprecedented realm for β-lactam antibiotic structure-based design.

These results confirm the presence of LA-MRSA in pigs and swine farm workers in the USA, but the prevalence found is relatively low compared with European studies.

The aim of this study was to assess the potential occupational risk of working with Staphylococcus aureus-colonized pigs in Switzerland.

The molecular typing data confirm the findings of a previous risk-analysis study indicating that trading of colonised pigs is a vehicle for transmission of MRSA CC398.

The percentage of infections potentially caused by pigs is approximately 0.019% of human infections.

The aim of this study was to contribute to better understanding of age-related changes in MRSA nasal colonization in pigs.

No statistically significant differences were observed for the prevalence of S. aureus in general, or MSSA or MRSA specifically, when comparing pork products from conventionally raised swine and swine raised without antibiotics.

The results presented here predict that MRSA is present on a large number of pig farms in Croatia.

In 2009, the nasal cavities of eight out of 405 randomly selected pigs were positive for MRSA, representing a prevalence of 2.0%. The following year, 23 out of 392 pigs were positive for MRSA (5.9% prevalence).