Molecular characteristics of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonizing surgical patients in Greece

Hadjihannas, Linos; Psichogiou, Mina; Empel, Joanna; Kosmidis, Chris; Goukos, Dimitrios; Bouzala, Jina; Georgopoulos, Sotirios; Malhotra-Kumar, Surbhi; Harbarth, Stéphan Juergen; Daikos, George L

doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.08.012

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Molecular characteristics of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonizing surgical patients in Greece

ContributorsHadjihannas, Linos; Psichogiou, Mina; Empel, Joanna; Kosmidis, Chris; Goukos, Dimitrios; Bouzala, Jina; Georgopoulos, Sotirios; Malhotra-Kumar, Surbhi; Harbarth, Stéphan Juergen

; Daikos, George L

Published inDiagnostic microbiology and infectious disease, vol. 74, no. 4, p. 420-422

Publication date2012

Abstract

Fifty-one of 925 patients screened for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) upon admission to a surgical unit were MRSA carriers; 15 were classified as community- and 36 as hospital-associated-MRSA. Fourteen of 22 isolates typed by molecular methods belonged to the European clone ST80-IVc, 3 of which exhibited resistance to ≥3 non-β-lactam antibiotics.

Keywords

Carrier State/epidemiology/microbiology
Cluster Analysis
Community-Acquired Infections/epidemiology/microbiology
Diagnostic Tests, Routine
Female
Genotype
Greece/epidemiology
Humans
Male
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus/classification/genetics/isolation & purification
Middle Aged
Molecular Epidemiology
Staphylococcal Infections/epidemiology/microbiology

Affiliation

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine

Research group

Epidémiologie et contrôle de la résistance aux antibiotiques (866)

Citation (ISO format)

HADJIHANNAS, Linos et al. Molecular characteristics of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonizing surgical patients in Greece. In: Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease, 2012, vol. 74, n° 4, p. 420–422. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.08.012

Article (Published version)

Identifiers

PID : unige:32518
DOI : 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.08.012
PMID : 23021063

ISSN of the journal0732-8893

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