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

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

doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.08.012

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

Linos Hadjihannas, Mina Psichogiou, Joanna Empel, Chris Kosmidis, Dimitrios Goukos, Jina Bouzala, Sotirios Georgopoulos, Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar, Stephan Harbarth, George L. Daikos^*

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Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	420-422
Number of pages	3
Journal	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Volume	74
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.08.012
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2012

Keywords

CA-MRSA
Colonization
Epidemiology
Multidrug resistance
Surgical patients

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Hadjihannas, L., Psichogiou, M., Empel, J., Kosmidis, C., Goukos, D., Bouzala, J., Georgopoulos, S., Malhotra-Kumar, S., Harbarth, S., & Daikos, G. L. (2012). Molecular characteristics of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonizing surgical patients in Greece. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 74(4), 420-422. https://doi.org/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

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