P04.02 A case of Mycobacterium fortuitum causing surgical site wound infection

Kaleem, Fatima; Usman, Javaid; Uddin, Kalim; Omair, Muhammad; Khalid, Abdul; Hassan, Ahmed

doi:10.1016/s0195-6701(10)60050-3

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“…This may be due to the strain to strain, abuse of antibiotics place to place and time factor. Our results are in accordance of [32][33][34]. In the present study, the aim was to identify risk factors of MRSA infections with community onset as studied by Boucher and Corey [35].…”

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Frequency of the Occurrence of Methicilin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Infections in Hyderabad, Pakistan

Brohi

Noor²

2017

Pak. J. Anal. Environ. Chem.

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Staphylococcus aureus is a potential pathogen of hospital and community related infections. It secretes toxins or the enzymes as virulence factor of mild to severe infections and show resistance to beta-lactam antibiotic including penicillin, methicillin, oxacillin and now vancomycin that could alarm of equal risk factors of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in the patients. The survey report of 381 patients of Hyderabad, Pakistan was collected from March 2013 to June 2014 in which 176 cases were reported for Staphylococcus aureus in both genders of different age groups of 3-15 y kids, 16-45 y adults and 45-70 y olds, which showed 208 and 132 specimens Staphylococcus infection and 16 and 4 cases of MRSA infections in male and female patients, respectively whereas other 31 cases showed no infection. The laboratory diagnosis of the 200 samples from various hospitalized patients revealed the highest percentage of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus MRSA in pus and post-operative wounds (17%) followed by skin swabs (10%), sputum (7%) and blood (0%). The observations revealed greater prevalence of MRSA infection in elderly age 16-45 years males than the females and other age groups. Antibiotic susceptibility test of 26 antibiotics revealed resistance (R-53%), sensitive (S-39) and variable (V-7%) sensitivity zones (mm). Amplification of mecA gene was done using PCR reaction that revealed mecA gene bands up to 150-200 base pairs by test resistant strains.

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