2003
DOI: 10.1128/aac.47.1.196-203.2003
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Comparative Molecular Analysis of Community- or Hospital-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Abstract: Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is a growing public health concern that has been associated with pediatric fatalities. It is hypothesized that the evolution of CA-MRSA is a recent event due to the acquisition of mec DNA by previously methicillin-susceptible strains that circulated in the community. This study investigated the genetic relatedness between CA-MRSA, hospital-associated MRSA (HA-MRSA), and nonmenstrual toxic shock syndrome (nmTSS) isolates. Thirty-one of 32 … Show more

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“…The genetically diverse community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) were reported to harbor preferentially SCCmec type IV (9,16,26). The sporadic MRSA isolates included in our study also had very diverse genetic backgrounds, and they carried most frequently either SCCmec type III (10 isolates) or IV (13 isolates).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…The genetically diverse community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) were reported to harbor preferentially SCCmec type IV (9,16,26). The sporadic MRSA isolates included in our study also had very diverse genetic backgrounds, and they carried most frequently either SCCmec type III (10 isolates) or IV (13 isolates).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…In the past the majority of hospital-associated methicillin-resistant strains were negative for production of superantigens capable of causing TSS and related illnesses. With the movement of community-associated methicillin-resistant strains into hospital settings, they carry with them superantigen production (such as staphylococcal enterotoxin C) (11). Very recently, two strains of S. aureus have been described that are resistant to vancomycin-in addition to being methicillin-resistant (13,37).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These latter two organisms were used in studies to assess whether or not two component systems were a target of α and β globin chains. S. aureus MW2 is a clinical isolate from a patient with necrotizing pneumonia; the organism produces the superantigen enterotoxin C (11). Group A streptococcal strain T25 3 cured(T12) produces the superantigen streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin A (SPE A) (21).…”
Section: Experimental Procedures (Materials and Methods) Bacterial Stmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…S. aureus, for example, exhibit a mechanism of action which protect them against almost all member of the largest family of antibiotics, the beta-lactams (ex. methicillin), which can be explained by presence of the gene mecA (Fey et al, 2003;Nascimento-Carvalho et al, 2008). P. aeruginosa has also presented increased resistance, including to imipenem, one of the antibacterial drugs with the largest spectrum of action against this pathogen .…”
Section: Antibacterial Analysis Of the Subfractions Obtained From Thementioning
confidence: 99%