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We present the case of polymicrobial pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) that involved Staphylococcus sciuri, S. epidermidis, and Streptococcus agalactiae. In order to determine the frequency of S. sciuri isolation from the female lower genital tract, 3415 vaginal samples were analysed during the one-year study period. S. sciuri was isolated from three (0.09%) samples. In all the three cases, S. sciuri was obtained in mixed culture from outpatients without symptoms of infection. While the origin of S. sciuri in the female genital tract remains to be elucidated, the present study showed that this bacterium may colonize vagina and, moreover, may be involved in the pathogenesis of an infection as serious as PID. The low rate of isolation we established, however, indicates infrequent and, most probably, transient colonization of the female genital tract by S. sciuri.
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- S Stepanović
- Department of Bacteriology, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Dr Subotića 1, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
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Ridenour GA, Wong ES, Call MA, Climo MW. Duration of Colonization with Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus aureusAmong Patients in the Intensive Care Unit: Implications for Intervention. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2016; 27:271-8. [PMID: 16532415 DOI: 10.1086/500649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2005] [Accepted: 08/01/2005] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Objectives.To determine the duration of methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus(MRSA) colonization or infection before entry and during hospitalization in the intensive care unit (ICU) and the characteristics of patients who tested positive for MRSA.Design.Prospective observational cohort survey.Setting.A combined medical and coronary care ICU with 16 single-bed rooms in a 427-bed tertiary care Veteran Affairs Medical CenterPatients.A total of 720 ICU patients associated with 845 ICU admissions were followed up for the detection of MRSA from January 13, 2003, to October 12, 2003. MRSA colonization was detected in patients by using active surveillance cultures (ASCs) of nasal swab specimens obtained within 48 hours of ICU entry and 3 times weekly thereafter. The duration of colonization during ICU stay and before ICU entry was calculated after a review of surveillance culture results, clinical culture results, and medical history.Results.Ninety-three (11.0%) of 845 ICU admissions involved patients who were colonized with MRSA at the time of ICU entry, and 21 admissions (2.5%) involved patients who acquired MRSA during ICU stay. ASCs were positive for MRSA in 84 (73.6%) of the 114 admissions associated with MRSA positivity and were the sole means of identifying MRSA in 50 cases (43.8%). More than half of the MRSA-associated admissions involved patients who were transferred from hospital wards. The total bed-days of care for 38 admissions involving patients who tested positive for MRSA before ICU entry (1131 days) was nearly 20% higher than the total bed-days of care for all admissions associated with MRSA positivity (970 days). Admissions involving MRSA-positive patients were associated with a longer length of hospitalization before ICU entry (P<.001), longer length of ICU stay (P<.001), longer overall length of hospitalization (P<.001), and greater inpatient mortality than admissions involving MRSA-negative patients (P<.001). A total of 22.8% of all bed-care days were dedicated to MRSA-positive patients in the ICU, and 55 (48.2%) of 114 admissions associated with MRSA positivity involved patients who were colonized for the duration of their ICU stay.Conclusions.In our unit, ASCs were an effective means to identify MRSA colonization among patients admitted to the ICU. Unfortunately, the majority of identified patients had long durations of stay in our own hospital before ICU entry, with prolonged MRSA colonization. Enhanced efforts to control MRSA will have to account for the prevalence of MRSA within hospital wards and to direct control efforts at these patients in the future.
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- Glenn A Ridenour
- Division of Infectious Disease, Hunter Holmes McGuire Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Richmond, 23249, USA
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Senger SS, Saccozza ME, Yuce A. Compatibility of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Findings and Clinical Criteria Commonly Used to Distinguish Between True Coagulase-Negative Staphylococcal Bacteremia and Contamination. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2015; 28:992-6. [PMID: 17620249 DOI: 10.1086/518753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2006] [Accepted: 12/28/2006] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Objectives.To evaluate the specificity and sensitivity of the clinical criteria widely used to differentiate true coagulase-negative staphylococcal (CoNS) bacteremia from contamination, using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) as the reference test.Design.The study sample consisted of 79 CoNS isolates recovered from cultures of blood from 38 patients. Medical charts of the patients were reviewed for demographic and clinical information. The relatedness of CoNS strains recovered from 2 or more successive blood cultures was analyzed by PFGE. Patients from whom similar strains were recovered were assumed to have true bacteremia, whereas patients from whom different strains were recovered were considered to have contaminated blood cultures. The clinical criteria comprised Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) surveillance definitions for bloodstream infection (BSI), as well as an alternative criterion based on the presence of fever, the presence of leukocytosis, the absence of another recognized infection, and the recovery of CoNS from 2 or more successive blood cultures.Results.Nineteen (50%) of the 38 patients had bacteremia due to similar strains; the remaining patients had bacteremia due to different strains. Criterion 2a of the CDC definition for BSI had a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 31.6% for distinguishing between true bacteremia and contamination. CDC criterion 2b had a sensitivity of 78.9% and a specificity of 52.6%.Conclusions.Molecular typing correlated poorly with the clinical criteria for true bacteremia. In view of the limited applicability of clinical criteria, more studies are needed to improve them. Periodic cross-sectional studies based on PFGE findings might be useful to estimate local contamination rates in an institution, which in turn can be used to improve the accuracy of the clinical diagnosis of bacteremia.
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- Suheyla Serin Senger
- Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey.
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Eckmann C. [Therapy of skin and soft tissue infections from surgeon's point of view]. Dtsch Med Wochenschr 2014; 139 Suppl 3:S91-2. [PMID: 25429540 DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1369846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- C Eckmann
- Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral- und Thoraxchirurgie, Klinikum Peine
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Bosch T, Verkade E, van Luit M, Pot B, Vauterin P, Burggrave R, Savelkoul P, Kluytmans J, Schouls L. High Resolution Typing by Whole Genome Mapping Enables Discrimination of LA-MRSA (CC398) Strains and Identification of Transmission Events. PLoS One 2013; 8:e66493. [PMID: 23805225 PMCID: PMC3689830 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2013] [Accepted: 05/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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After its emergence in 2003, a livestock-associated (LA-)MRSA clade (CC398) has caused an impressive increase in the number of isolates submitted for the Dutch national MRSA surveillance and now comprises 40% of all isolates. The currently used molecular typing techniques have limited discriminatory power for this MRSA clade, which hampers studies on the origin and transmission routes. Recently, a new molecular analysis technique named whole genome mapping was introduced. This method creates high-resolution, ordered whole genome restriction maps that may have potential for strain typing. In this study, we assessed and validated the capability of whole genome mapping to differentiate LA-MRSA isolates. Multiple validation experiments showed that whole genome mapping produced highly reproducible results. Assessment of the technique on two well-documented MRSA outbreaks showed that whole genome mapping was able to confirm one outbreak, but revealed major differences between the maps of a second, indicating that not all isolates belonged to this outbreak. Whole genome mapping of LA-MRSA isolates that were epidemiologically unlinked provided a much higher discriminatory power than spa-typing or MLVA. In contrast, maps created from LA-MRSA isolates obtained during a proven LA-MRSA outbreak were nearly indistinguishable showing that transmission of LA-MRSA can be detected by whole genome mapping. Finally, whole genome maps of LA-MRSA isolates originating from two unrelated veterinarians and their household members showed that veterinarians may carry and transmit different LA-MRSA strains at the same time. No such conclusions could be drawn based spa-typing and MLVA. Although PFGE seems to be suitable for molecular typing of LA-MRSA, WGM provides a much higher discriminatory power. Furthermore, whole genome mapping can provide a comparison with other maps within 2 days after the bacterial culture is received, making it suitable to investigate transmission events and outbreaks caused by LA-MRSA.
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- Thijs Bosch
- Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Screening, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory for Microbiology and Infection Control, Amphia Hospital, Breda, The Netherlands
- Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology, St. Elisabeth Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Screening, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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- Applied Maths, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Department of Medical Microbiology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory for Microbiology and Infection Control, Amphia Hospital, Breda, The Netherlands
- Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology, St. Elisabeth Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands
- Department of Medical Microbiology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Screening, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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OBJECTIVE To establish the relatedness of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates in the Maternity Hospital, Kuwait. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 22 MRSA were isolated from 20 neonates and 1 mother in the Special Care Unit, Maternity Hospital, Kuwait. They were characterized using antibiogram, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), SCCmec typing, spa typing and multi locus sequence typing (MLST), and were screened for genes encoding Panton Valentine leukocidin (PVL) and capsular polysaccharide types 5 and 8. RESULTS The isolates were resistant to cadmium acetate (n = 22 or 100%), trimethoprim (n = 13 or 59.1%), gentamicin (n = 7 or 31.8%), ciprofloxacin (n = 5 or 22.7%), erythromycin and clindamycin (n = 2 or 9.1%), tetracycline (n = 2 or 9.1%) and fusidic acid (n = 2 or 9.1%). Eight isolates contained genes for PVL while 15 and 6 carried genes for types 5 and 8 capsular polysaccharide, respectively. Molecular typing distinguished 12 clones. Ten of these clones consisted of 20 isolates belonging to ST60-SCCmec-IV-t3935 (5 isolates), ST6-SCCmec-IV-t6269 (4 isolates), ST194-SCCmec-IV-t6892 (3 isolates), ST1-SCCmec-V-t2962 (2 isolates) and 1 isolate each of ST77-SCCmec-IV-t339, ST935-SCCmec-V-t1084, ST1317-SCCmec-V-t1548, ST9-SCCmec-V-t5801, ST627-SCCmec-IV-t1340 and ST2148-SCCmec-IV-t2810. CONCLUSION The study demonstrated the emergence of MRSA including novel ST60 and ST194 clones at the Maternity Hospital in Kuwait.
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- Edet E. Udo
- *Edet E Udo, PhD, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, P. O. Box 24923, Safat, 13110 (Kuwait), E-Mail
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Tristan A, Rasigade JP, Ruizendaal E, Laurent F, Bes M, Meugnier H, Lina G, Etienne J, Celard M, Tattevin P, Monecke S, Le Moing V, Vandenesch F. Rise of CC398 lineage of Staphylococcus aureus among Infective endocarditis isolates revealed by two consecutive population-based studies in France. PLoS One 2012; 7:e51172. [PMID: 23272091 PMCID: PMC3521771 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2012] [Accepted: 10/30/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Staphylococcus aureus isolates from two prospective studies on infective endocarditis (IE) conducted in 1999 and 2008 and isolated from non-IE bacteremia collected in 2006 were spa-typed and their virulence factors were analyzed with a microarray. Both populations were genetically diverse, with no virulence factors or genotypes significantly more associated with the IE isolates compared with the non-IE isolates. The population structure of the IE isolates did not change much between 1999 and 2008, with the exception of the appearance of CC398 methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) isolates responsible for 5.6% of all cases in 2008. In 1999, this lineage was responsible for no cases. The increasing prevalence of S. aureus in IE is apparently not the result of a major change in staphylococcal population structure over time, with the exception of the emerging CC398 MSSA lineage.
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- Anne Tristan
- Hospices Civils de Lyon, Centre National de Référence des Staphylocoques, Bron, France.
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Cunha BA. A useful clinical approach to community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections. J Hosp Infect 2008; 68:271-3. [PMID: 18289722 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2007.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2007] [Accepted: 12/05/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Liassine N, Decosterd F, Etienne J. [Evaluation of IDI-MRDA assay on a collection of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates and on carriage specimens]. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 55:378-81. [PMID: 17913391 DOI: 10.1016/j.patbio.2007.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2007] [Accepted: 08/16/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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UNLABELLED The efficacy of infection control measures against MRSA is linked to the rapid detection of MRSA. With the conventional diagnosis by culture the response delays vary from 48 to 72 hours. In contrast molecular techniques give results within hours. OBJECTIVE The objective of the present study is to perform the IDI-MRSA PCR test (BD Diagnostic GeneOhm) on a collection of characterized community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) isolates and on carriage specimens. COLLECTION OF ISOLATES: Fifty-two isolates of CA-MRSA previously characterised by their toxinotype and SCCmec type cassette were analysed. All of them were identified as MRSA by the IDI-MRSA test. SPECIMENS Seventy screening specimens from 35 different patients were tested in comparison with the culture on specific media (MRSA ID, BioMérieux). Among those 70 specimens, 24 were from nose, 25 from cutaneous sites (axillar; groin) and 21 from other sites. Sensitivity and specificity were 86.4 and 91.3% respectively; positive and negative predictive values were 93.3 and 82.6% respectively. RESULTS Three of four false-positive results came from specimens collected during a decolonisation treatment. Without taking account those specimens, specificity and positive predictive reach 97.9 and 95% respectively. This study shows that IDI-MRSA is an interesting additional test for the diagnosis of MRSA carriage.
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- N Liassine
- Unilabs Genève, 53, avenue Blanc, 1211 Genève 2, Suisse.
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Chen CJ, Su LH, Chiu CH, Lin TY, Wong KS, Chen YYM, Huang YC. Clinical features and molecular characteristics of invasive community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in Taiwanese children. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2007; 59:287-93. [PMID: 17662565 DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2007] [Revised: 05/24/2007] [Accepted: 05/30/2007] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Highly virulent community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has been associated with morbidity and mortality in various countries of the world. We characterized the clinical and molecular features of pediatric invasive CA-MRSA infections in Taiwan. Between July 2000 and June 2005, 31 previously healthy children with invasive CA-MRSA infections were identified from 423 children with community-onset methicillin-resistant S. aureus infections. The medical records were reviewed. The clinical isolates, if available, were collected for molecular characterization. Sixteen (51.6%) patients were male, and the mean age was 5.7 years. Adolescents accounted for 9 (29%) cases. Eighteen children had bone and/or joint infections, 14 had deep-seated soft tissue infections, 11 had pneumonia, and 2 had central nervous system infections. Multiorgan involvement was identified in 8 of 20 bacteremic cases. Twenty-two patients (71%) required surgical interventions. The mean hospital stay was 27.4 days. All of the 15 available isolates were classified as sequence type (ST) 59 or its single locus variant and belonged to 2 previously reported community-associated clones containing staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) type IV or type V(T) in Taiwan. Most of the isolates were multiresistant to clindamycin (94%) and erythromycin (97%). Eleven (73.3%) isolates carried pvl genes, and the strains harboring pvl genes were significantly associated with lung involvement. In conclusion, invasive CA-MRSA infections in pediatric population were not limited to young children. Surgical interventions were often required, and a prolonged course of antibiotic therapy was needed. A multiresistant CA-MRSA clone characterized as ST59 was identified from these children in Taiwan.
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- Chih-Jung Chen
- Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Children's Hospital, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan
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Ribeiro A, Coronado AZ, Silva-Carvalho MC, Ferreira-Carvalho BT, Dias C, Rozenbaum R, Del Peloso PF, da Costa Ferreira Leite C, Teixeira LA, Figueiredo AMS. Detection and characterization of international community-acquired infections by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre cities causing both community- and hospital-associated diseases. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2007; 59:339-45. [PMID: 17662563 DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2007] [Revised: 05/12/2007] [Accepted: 05/14/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Community-acquired infections by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in the absence of classic risk factors for MRSA diseases have been reported in different continents. In the article presented here, using molecular typing methods as pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec typing, and multilocus sequence typing, we characterized CA-MRSA isolates from Rio Janeiro and Porto Alegre. The results indicated the presence of international CA-MRSA clones in these 2 Brazilian cities. In addition, Panton-Valentine leukocidin and a number of staphylococcal enterotoxin encoding genes were accessed in these MRSA isolates by polymerase chain reaction detection.
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- Apoena Ribeiro
- Instituto de Microbiologia Prof. Paulo de Góes, Centro de Ciências da Saúde (CCS), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21941-902, Brazil
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Del'Alamo L, d'Azevedo PA, Strob AJ, Rodríguez-Lopez DV, Monteiro J, Andrade SS, Pignatari ACC, Gales AC. An outbreak of catalase-negative methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Hosp Infect 2007; 65:226-30. [PMID: 17275955 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2006.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2006] [Accepted: 12/01/2006] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The wide dissemination of a major epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clone in Brazilian hospitals (Brazilian clone) limits the value of molecular typing techniques such as pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) for outbreak investigation. We report the first outbreak of a catalase-negative strain of MRSA, which was initially detected by the unusual result of this phenotypical test. The outbreak occurred in the Hospital Sanatorinhos de Carapicuíba, a 237-bed secondary hospital located in São Paulo, Brazil. From May to August 2002, a total of 11 MRSA isolates were recovered from four patients in the intensive care unit. All the isolates were catalase negative and susceptible only to vancomycin and linezolid. Three of the four patients eventually died. Molecular typing demonstrated an indistinguishable PFGE pattern among the 11 isolates, with similarities to the Brazilian clone and the hospital's usual MRSA strain. This report emphasizes the importance of an uncommon phenotypical result as a marker for initiating an outbreak investigation and should encourage clinical laboratories to recognize and report such isolates.
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- L Del'Alamo
- Hospital Sanatorinhos de Carapicuíba, São Paulo, Brazil
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Porter E, Damani N. Epidemic meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains associated with Northern Ireland. J Hosp Infect 2006; 65:88-9. [PMID: 17145106 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2006.09.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2006] [Accepted: 09/20/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Ramilo O, Allman W, Chung W, Mejias A, Ardura M, Glaser C, Wittkowski KM, Piqueras B, Banchereau J, Palucka AK, Chaussabel D. Gene expression patterns in blood leukocytes discriminate patients with acute infections. Blood 2006; 109:2066-77. [PMID: 17105821 PMCID: PMC1801073 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2006-02-002477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 371] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Each infectious agent represents a unique combination of pathogen-associated molecular patterns that interact with specific pattern-recognition receptors expressed on immune cells. Therefore, we surmised that the blood immune cells of individuals with different infections might bear discriminative transcriptional signatures. Gene expression profiles were obtained for 131 peripheral blood samples from pediatric patients with acute infections caused by influenza A virus, Gram-negative (Escherichia coli) or Gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae) bacteria. Thirty-five genes were identified that best discriminate patients with influenza A virus infection from patients with either E coli or S pneumoniae infection. These genes classified with 95% accuracy (35 of 37 samples) an independent set of patients with either influenza A, E coli, or S pneumoniae infection. A different signature discriminated patients with E coli versus S aureus infections with 85% accuracy (34 of 40). Furthermore, distinctive gene expression patterns were observed in patients presenting with respiratory infections of different etiologies. Thus, microarray analyses of patient peripheral blood leukocytes might assist in the differential diagnosis of infectious diseases.
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- Octavio Ramilo
- Baylor National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases (NIAID) Cooperative Center for Translational Research on Human Immunology and Biodefense and Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, Dallas, TX 75204, USA.
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Recently, it has been recognized that inflammation is the major cause of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) rather than bacterial infection. Fungi have emerged as a possible pathogenic agent that drives CRS. One clear-cut group of fungal sinusitis can be divided into invasive and noninvasive. The condition that the allergist is most likely to see is allergic fungal sinusitis. Generally, it appears in atopic, immunocompetent, adolescents and young adults and is marked by the presence of nasal polyps and allergic mucin, which includes eosinophils, Charcot-Leyden crystals, and fungal hyphae. Computer tomographic imaging shows sinus opacification with hyperdense areas. Treatment has been successful with definitive nasosinus surgery and long-term oral prednisone. There is some evidence that fungi also may account for a large percentage of the remaining CRS patients. In this instance, the immune response to common airborne fungi appears to be IgG mediated rather than IgE mediated. Promising therapeutic results have been seen with intranasal antifungal agents but larger multicenter double-blinded placebo-controlled studies are needed. Another unanswered question includes the possible role of staphylococcus-derived enterotoxins in the pathogenesis of CRS.
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- Raymond G Slavin
- Department of Internal Medicine/Allergy and Immunology, St. Louis University School of Medicine, 1402 South Grand Avenue, Room R209, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA.
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Fiedotow M, Denys A. [The chosen aspects of hospital infections]. Pol Merkur Lekarski 2006; 21:484-8. [PMID: 17345846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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The paper presents some basic data on hospital infections and their influence in evaluation of hospital functioning. The most common infections, microorganism which are the cause of them, the role of patient immunological state, ways of spreading infections and ways of preventing them have been presented.
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- Maja Fiedotow
- Department of Medical and Sanitary Microbiology, Medical University of Lodz, Poland
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Infection following joint replacement surgery although rare presents a challenging problem. Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is an emerging problem. We analysed the microbiology of 337 single-stage revisions for deep infection. Coagulase negative staphylococcus was found to be the predominant organism, although staphylococcus aureus is gaining importance. Gentamicin only provides cover for 64.1% of organisms. Resistance to this commonly used antibiotic prophylaxis is escalating. Fusidic acid and erythromycin provide improved cover. We would suggest on a microbiological basis that these antibiotics be considered for addition to acrylic bone cement. This will provide local antibiotic delivery when performing a revision for deep infection.
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- Imran Rafiq
- Centre for Hip Surgery, Wrightington Hospital, Wigan, England, UK.
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The control of healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is of concern worldwide. Given the evidence that several pathogenic species replicate within amoebae and emerge more virulent and more resistant and the abundance of amoebae in healthcare settings, we investigated interactions of Acanthamoeba polyphaga with epidemic MRSA isolates. MRSA proliferated in the presence of amoebae, attributable partly to intracellular replication. Following 24 h of co-culture, confocal microscopy revealed that c. 50% amoebae had viable MRSA within phago-lysosomes and 2% of amoebae were heavily infected with viable cocci throughout the cytoplasm. Infection control strategies should recognize the contribution of protozoa.
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- Sharon A Huws
- Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
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Morrison MA, Hageman JC, Klevens RM. Case definition for community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Hosp Infect 2006; 62:241. [PMID: 16289455 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2005.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2005] [Accepted: 07/19/2005] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Holmes A, Ganner M, McGuane S, Pitt TL, Cookson BD, Kearns AM. Staphylococcus aureus isolates carrying Panton-Valentine leucocidin genes in England and Wales: frequency, characterization, and association with clinical disease. J Clin Microbiol 2005; 43:2384-90. [PMID: 15872271 PMCID: PMC1153723 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.43.5.2384-2390.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 280] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Staphylococcus aureus isolates carrying the genes that encode for Panton-Valentine leucocidin (PVL), a highly potent toxin, have been responsible for recent outbreaks of severe invasive disease in previously healthy children and adults in the United States of America and Europe. To determine the frequency of PVL-positive isolates sent to the Staphylococcus Reference Unit (United Kingdom) for epidemiological purposes, we tested 515 isolates of S. aureus, and 8 (1.6%) were positive for the PVL locus. A further 470 isolates were selected to explore the association of PVL-positive S. aureus with clinical disease. Of these, 23 (4.9%) were PVL positive and most were associated with skin and soft tissue infections (especially abscesses). The PVL genes were also detected in isolates responsible for community-acquired pneumonia, burn infections, bacteremia, and scalded skin syndrome. Genotyping by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and multilocus sequence typing revealed that the PVL-positive isolates were from diverse genetic backgrounds, although one prevalent clone of 12 geographically dispersed methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) isolates was identified (ST80). All 12 isolates were stapylococcal cassette chromosome mec type IVc, had an agr3 allele, and shared a common toxin gene profile (sea-see, seg-sej, eta, etb, and tst negative but etd positive). ST80 strains with similar genetic characteristics have been responsible for community-acquired infections in France and Switzerland. The remaining PVL-positive isolates were mostly methicillin-sensitive S. aureus and belonged to 12 different sequence types, including ST22 and ST30, which are closely related to the most prevalent MRSA clones in United Kingdom hospitals, EMRSA-15 and EMRSA-16, respectively.
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- A Holmes
- Laboratory of Healthcare-Associated Infection, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, London, NW9 5HT, United Kingdom.
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Cosgrove SE, Qi Y, Kaye KS, Harbarth S, Karchmer AW, Carmeli Y. The impact of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia on patient outcomes: mortality, length of stay, and hospital charges. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2005; 26:166-74. [PMID: 15756888 DOI: 10.1086/502522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 672] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus on mortality, length of hospitalization, and hospital charges. DESIGN A cohort study of patients admitted to the hospital between July 1, 1997, and June 1, 2000, who had clinically significant S. aureus bloodstream infections. SETTING A 630-bed, urban, tertiary-care teaching hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. PATIENTS Three hundred forty-eight patients with S. aureus bacteremia were studied; 96 patients had methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). Patients with methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) and MRSA were similar regarding gender, percentage of nosocomial acquisition, length of hospitalization, ICU admission, and surgery before S. aureus bacteremia. They differed regarding age, comorbidities, and illness severity score. RESULTS Similar numbers of MRSA and MSSA patients died (22.9% vs 19.8%; P = .53). Both the median length of hospitalization after S. aureus bacteremia for patients who survived and the median hospital charges after S. aureus bacteremia were significantly increased in MRSA patients (7 vs 9 days, P = .045; 19,212 dollars vs 26,424 dollars, P = .008). After multivariable analysis, compared with MSSA bacteremia, MRSA bacteremia remained associated with increased length of hospitalization (1.29 fold; P = .016) and hospital charges (1.36 fold; P = .017). MRSA bacteremia had a median attributable length of stay of 2 days and a median attributable hospital charge of 6916 dollars. CONCLUSION Methicillin resistance in S. aureus bacteremia is associated with significant increases in length of hospitalization and hospital charges.
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- Sara E Cosgrove
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA.
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PURPOSE To determine the imaging characteristics of infected aortic aneurysms. MATERIALS AND METHODS Review of records of patients with surgical and/or microbiologic proof of infected aortic aneurysm obtained over a 25-year period revealed 31 aneurysms in 29 patients. This study included 21 men and eight women (mean age, 70 years). One radiologist reviewed 28 computed tomographic (CT) studies (22 patients underwent CT once and three patients underwent CT twice), 12 arteriograms (12 patients underwent arteriography once), eight nuclear medicine studies (six patients underwent nuclear medicine imaging once and one patient underwent nuclear medicine imaging twice), and three magnetic resonance (MR) studies (three patients underwent MR imaging once). Features evaluated included aneurysm size, shape, and location; branch involvement; aortic wall calcification; gas; radiotracer uptake on nuclear medicine studies; and periaortic and associated findings. The location of infected aortic aneurysms was compared with that of arteriosclerotic aneurysms. RESULTS Aneurysms were located in the ascending aorta (n = 2, 6%), descending thoracic aorta (n = 7, 23%), thoracoabdominal aorta (n = 6, 19%), paravisceral aorta (n = 2, 6%), juxtarenal aorta (n = 3, 10%), infrarenal aorta (n = 10, 32%), and renal artery (n = 1, 3%). Two patients had two infected aortic aneurysms. CT revealed 25 saccular (93%) and two fusiform (7%) aneurysms with a mean diameter at initial discovery of 5.4 cm (range, 1-11 cm). Paraaortic soft-tissue mass, stranding, and/or fluid was present in 13 (48%) of 27 aneurysms, and early periaortic edema with rapid aneurysm progression and development was present in three (100%) patients with sequential studies. Other findings included adjacent vertebral body destruction with psoas muscle abscess (n = 1, 4%), kidney infarct (n = 1, 4%), absence of calcification in the aortic wall (n = 2, 7%), and periaortic gas (n = 2, 7%). Angiography showed 13 saccular aneurysms with lobulated contour in 10 (77%). Nuclear medicine imaging showed increased activity consistent with infection in six (86%) of seven aneurysms. MR imaging showed three saccular aneurysms. Adjacent abnormal vertebral body marrow signal intensity was seen in one (33%) of three patients. CONCLUSION Saccular aneurysms (especially those with lobulated contour) with rapid expansion or development and adjacent mass, stranding, and/or fluid in an unusual location are highly suspicious for an infected aneurysm.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Aneurysm, Infected/classification
- Aneurysm, Infected/diagnosis
- Aneurysm, Infected/microbiology
- Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal/classification
- Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal/diagnosis
- Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal/microbiology
- Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic/classification
- Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic/diagnosis
- Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic/microbiology
- Celiac Artery/diagnostic imaging
- Celiac Artery/microbiology
- Escherichia coli Infections/classification
- Escherichia coli Infections/diagnosis
- Escherichia coli Infections/microbiology
- Female
- Haemophilus Infections/classification
- Haemophilus Infections/diagnosis
- Haemophilus Infections/microbiology
- Humans
- Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
- Listeriosis/classification
- Listeriosis/diagnosis
- Listeriosis/microbiology
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
- Male
- Mesenteric Arteries/diagnostic imaging
- Mesenteric Arteries/microbiology
- Middle Aged
- Minnesota
- Renal Artery/diagnostic imaging
- Renal Artery/microbiology
- Salmonella Infections/classification
- Salmonella Infections/diagnosis
- Salmonella Infections/microbiology
- Staphylococcal Infections/classification
- Staphylococcal Infections/diagnosis
- Staphylococcal Infections/microbiology
- Streptococcal Infections/classification
- Streptococcal Infections/diagnosis
- Streptococcal Infections/microbiology
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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- Thanila A Macedo
- Department of Radiology and Division of Vascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
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The clinical presentation of osteomyelitis is multifarious. Therefore, patients are diagnosed and treated by various specialists with many different concepts of optimal management. Originally, only the acute and the chronic presentations were differentiated. The classification of Waldvogel, which is based on pathogenetic mechanisms, is more sophisticated. Diabetic foot is classified according to Wagner, who takes into account the continuous progression from sore to ulcer to osteomyelitis to gangrene. The staging according to Cierny-Mader is the most useful for the therapeutic management by surgeons. The spectrum of microorganisms is variable according to the type of osteomyelitis, epidemiology, age of the patient, co-morbidity, microbiological technique (culture, PCR), and duration of the infection. S. aureus is the leading pathogen in each type of osteomyelitis. Over the past 20 years, antimicrobial resistance has become an increasing problem. In case of osteomyelitis, standard susceptibility testing can be inaccurate. In case of device-related infection or in any type of chronic osteomyelitis, antimicrobial agents must be efficacious on stationary-phase and adhering microorganisms. Microbiologic culture and susceptibility testing should always be performed, in order to optimize the antimicrobial therapy.
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- W Zimmerli
- Medizinische Universitätsklinik, Kantonsspital Liestal, Switzerland.
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Tulner SAF, Schaap GR, Strackee SD, Besselaar PP, Luitse JSK, Marti RK. Long-Term Results of Multiple-Stage Treatment for Posttraumatic Osteomyelitis of the Tibia. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 56:633-42. [PMID: 15128137 DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000112327.50235.0a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND The treatment of posttraumatic osteomyelitis of the tibia requires meticulous debridement and adequate soft tissue coverage. At our institution, we perform a staged procedure consisting of surgical debridement followed by muscle coverage. If necessary, implantation of a cancellous iliac bone graft was always performed as a three-stage treatment. METHODS We performed a retrospective analysis of 47 patients treated for posttraumatic osteomyelitis of the tibia between 1987 and 1998. RESULTS Twenty-two patients originally had a Gustilo grade III fracture, 21 patients had a Gustilo grade I or II or closed fracture, the Gustilo grade was not known for 2 patients, and 2 patients had no fracture. Using the Cierny-Mader classification, most patients had a localized osteomyelitis. To cover the debrided area, 20 pedicled muscle transfers and 28 microvascular free flaps were used; one patient had two localizations of osteomyelitis (both proximal and distal) and received two muscle flaps. Flap failure was 8% and was successfully treated by additional flap coverage in two cases; one was closed by a split skin graft and one was closed by secundum. Twenty-six patients received a cancellous bone graft. During an average follow-up of 94 months, 9% had a recurrence of osteomyelitis for which additional surgical interventions were necessary. Finally, all the infections were eventually cured. CONCLUSION Our staged surgery proved to be an excellent method of treating osteomyelitis after open or closed fractures of the tibia.
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- Sven A F Tulner
- Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Analysis of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (c-MRSA) from Germany producing the Panton-Valentine leukocidin revealed a unique SmaI-macrorestriction pattern, different from epidemic nosocomial strains. This molecular pattern corresponds to those shown in c-MRSA strains from other countries in the European Union. All isolates exhibited resistance to fusidic acid, which is coded by the far-1 gene. From data on geographical dissemination and time of occurrence, this strain appears to have emerged in Germany in the second half of 2002, and so an already wider dissemination is likely. The emergence of MRSA with resistance to fusidic acid is a first sign of the emergence of a PVL-positive MRSA clone.
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- W Witte
- National Reference Centre for Staphylococci, Robert-Koch Institut, Wernigerode, Germany
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Stepanovic S, Jezek P, Vukovic D, Dakic I, Petrás P. Isolation of members of the Staphylococcus sciuri group from urine and their relationship to urinary tract infections. J Clin Microbiol 2003; 41:5262-4. [PMID: 14605178 PMCID: PMC262515 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.41.11.5262-5264.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2003] [Revised: 07/30/2003] [Accepted: 08/14/2003] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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During a 3-year study period, 32,741 urine samples were analyzed for the presence of members of the Staphylococcus sciuri group (S. sciuri, S. lentus, and S. vitulinus), and 13 isolates were identified. They presented 0.79% of the total number of coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated. One case of symptomatic urinary tract infection and five possible cases of asymptomatic bacteriuria caused by these bacteria were established. It is noteworthy, however, that over 50% of the isolates originated from hospitalized patients.
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- Srdjan Stepanovic
- Department of Bacteriology, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
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Lemée L. [What microbiological criteria define colonization or infection with Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa]. Rev Mal Respir 2003; 20:S69-78. [PMID: 12910137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/04/2023]
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- L Lemée
- Département de microbiologie, CHU de Rouen, France.
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Chabanon G, Segonds C. [What microbiological criteria define a colonization or infection with Staphylococcus aureus?]. Rev Mal Respir 2003; 20:S79-83. [PMID: 12910138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/04/2023]
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- G Chabanon
- Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Hygiène, Observatoire national B. cepacia/VLM Hôpital de Rangueil, Toulouse.
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Single positive culture was encountered in 61/235 patients (26%) with Staphylococcus aureus in blood culture over a 2-y period. It represented either true bacteremia (n = 52 cases; 85.2%) or contamination (n = 9; 14.8%). In comparison to cases with < or = 2 positive cultures, these patients did not have less severe disease or a lower incidence of complications.
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- Riad Khatib
- Department of Internal Medicine, St John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan 48236, USA.
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Steinbrueckner B, Singh S, Freney J, Kuhnert P, Pelz K, Aufenanger J. Facing a mysterious hospital outbreak of bacteraemia due to Staphylococcus saccharolyticus. J Hosp Infect 2001; 49:305-7. [PMID: 11740889 DOI: 10.1053/jhin.2001.1105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Measles and scarlet fever were differentiated from one another in the 17th century. Rubella was accepted as the third distinct paediatric exanthem in 1881. Nil Filatow in 1885 and Clement Dukes in 1894 described two distinct forms of rubella, and in 1900 Dukes proposed that one of these forms of rubella was a separate entity which he called the fourth disease. For the past five decades, fourth disease has been considered a non-entity, perhaps a mild form of scarlet fever, but certainly not a distinct disease. In 1979 Keith Powell resurrected the idea of the fourth disease and argued that it was caused by exotoxin-producing Staphylococcus aureus. We present additional arguments for the existence of fourth disease, as well as information to link the disease to S. aureus.
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- M E Weisse
- Department of Pediatrics, West Virginia University School of Medicine, USA.
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The artificial sphincter has now been used for the treatment of patients with faecal incontinence since 1996. Presently, results in the UK do not match those reported from the rest of Europe, with infection caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus being the most common cause of failure.
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- A Jain
- The Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, The University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
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Wichelhaus TA, Kern S, Schäfer V, Brade V. Rapid detection of epidemic strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol 1999; 37:690-3. [PMID: 9986833 PMCID: PMC84522 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.3.690-693.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/1998] [Accepted: 11/30/1998] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Fifty methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) initial isolates obtained from patients hospitalized in the orthopedic clinic of the Frankfurt University Hospital and 150 methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) isolates were investigated in this study to determine whether the Slidex Staph-Kit is capable of differentiating between MRSA and MSSA owing to its unique performance characteristics. The Slidex Staph-Kit is a combined latex hemagglutination test designed to detect clumping factor, protein A, and a specific surface immunogen for S. aureus. Clumping factor-positive strains cause erythrocytes sensitized with fibrinogen to hemagglutinate, thereby resulting in visible red clumps. S. aureus strains deficient in clumping factor agglutinate latex particles sensitized with specific antibodies against surface proteins of S. aureus, thereby resulting in visible white clumps. Our results demonstrate that white clumping has a 99% specificity as well as a 98% positive predictive value for MRSA. Clumping factor-negative MRSA, which have been reported to occur in several countries, are epidemic in the Frankfurt area and account for 80% of all MRSA initial isolates in the orthopedic clinic of the Frankfurt University Hospital. Genotyping of all MRSA isolates by macrorestriction analysis of chromosomal DNA revealed that 83% of clumping factor-negative MRSA are closely related to the "southern-German" epidemic strain. This is the first study demonstrating the Slidex Staph-Kit's capability for identifying epidemic clumping factor-negative S. aureus strains as methicillin resistant even prior to antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
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- T A Wichelhaus
- Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Vermont CL, Hartwig NG, Fleer A, de Man P, Verbrugh H, van den Anker J, de Groot R, van Belkum A. Persistence of clones of coagulase-negative staphylococci among premature neonates in neonatal intensive care units: two-center study of bacterial genotyping and patient risk factors. J Clin Microbiol 1998; 36:2485-90. [PMID: 9705379 PMCID: PMC105149 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.9.2485-2490.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/1998] [Accepted: 05/29/1998] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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From 1 January 1995 until 1 January 1996, we studied the molecular epidemiology of blood isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) of the Sophia Children's Hospital (SCH; Rotterdam, The Netherlands) and the Wilhelmina Children's Hospital (WCH; Utrecht, The Netherlands). The main goal of the present study was to detect putatively endemic clones of CoNS persisting in these NICUs. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis was used to detect the possible presence of endemic clones of clinical significance. In addition, clinical data of patients in the SCH were analyzed retrospectively to identify risk factors for the acquisition of positive blood cultures. In both centers, endemic CoNS clones were persistently present. Thirty-three percent of the bacterial isolates derived from blood cultures in the SCH belonged to a single genotype. In the WCH, 45% of all bacterial strains belonged to a single clone. These clones were clearly different from each other, which implies that site specificity is involved. Interestingly, we observe that the clonal type in the SCH differed significantly from the incidentally occurring strains with respect to both the average pH and partial CO2 pressure of the patient's blood at the time of bacterial culture. We found that the use of intravascular catheters, low gestational age, and a long hospital stay were important risk factors for the development of a putative CoNS infection. When the antibiotic susceptibility of the bacterial isolates was assessed, a clear correlation between the nature of the antibiotics most frequently used as a first line of defense versus the resistance profile was observed. We conclude that the intensive use of antibiotics in an NICU setting with highly susceptible patients causes selection of multiresistant clones of CoNS which subsequently become endemic.
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- C L Vermont
- Divisions of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Aires de Sousa M, Sanches IS, Ferro ML, Vaz MJ, Saraiva Z, Tendeiro T, Serra J, de Lencastre H. Intercontinental spread of a multidrug-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone. J Clin Microbiol 1998; 36:2590-6. [PMID: 9705398 PMCID: PMC105168 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.9.2590-2596.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/1998] [Accepted: 05/28/1998] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Two hundred ten methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates recovered between 1990 and 1997 from three Portuguese hospitals located in Lisbon and Oporto were analyzed by molecular fingerprinting techniques. The hybridization of ClaI restriction digests with the mecA- and Tn554-specific DNA probes combined with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis documented the abrupt appearance and extensive intrahospital spread of the Brazilian epidemic MRSA clone in the 1995 samples of each one of the three hospitals analyzed-suggesting the intercontinental transfer of this strain from Brazil to Portugal. The appearance of this clone may challenge the dominance of another highly epidemic imported clone-the Iberian MRSA, currently the most widely spread MRSA clone in Portuguese hospitals.
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- M Aires de Sousa
- Unidade de Genética Molecular, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ITQB/UNL), Oeiras, Lisbon, Portugal
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Da Costa A, Kirkorian G, Chevalier P, Cerisier A, Chalvidan T, Obadia JF, Etienne J, Isaaz K, Touboul P. [Infections secondary to implantation of cardiac pacemakers]. Arch Mal Coeur Vaiss 1998; 91:753-7. [PMID: 9749192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Infectious complications of pacemaker implantation are not common but may be particularly severe. Localised wound infections at the site of implantation have been reported in 0.5% of cases in the most recent series with an average of about 2%. The incidence of septicaemia and infectious endocarditis is lower, about 0.5% of cases. The operator's experience, the duration of the procedure and repeat procedures are considered to be predisposing factors. The main cause of these infections is though to be local contamination during the implantation. The commonest causal organism is the staphylococcus (75 to 92%), the staphylococcus aureus being the cause of acute infections whereas the staphylococcus epidermis is associated with cases of secondary infection. The usual clinical presentation is infection at the site of the pacemaker but other forms such as abscess, endocarditis, rejection of the implanted material, septic emboli and septic phlebitis have been described. The diagnosis is confirmed by local and systemic biological investigations and by echocardiography (especially transoesophageal echocardiography) in cases of right heart endocarditis. There are two axes of treatment: bactericidal double antibiotherapy and surgical ablation of the infected material either percutaneously or by cardiotomy. Though controversial, and unsupported by scientific evidence, the role of systematic, preoperative, prophylactic antibiotic therapy in the prevention of these complications seems to be increasing.
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- A Da Costa
- Service de cardiologie, hôpital cardiovasculaire et pneumologique Louis-Pradel, BP Lyon-Montchat, Lyon
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Schmitz FJ, Jäger B, Tichy HV, Idel H, Hadding U, Heinz HP. [Insertion possibility of 16S-23S space amplification and random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis for typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains in the context of nosocomial infections]. Zentralbl Hyg Umweltmed 1997; 200:172-88. [PMID: 9636988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Within the scope of the present study n = 183 MRSA isolates from the extended area of Düsseldorf and n = 93 international MRSA strains from seven different countries were typed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and two PCR methods (RAPD and 16S-23S-spacer amplification). The isolates could be subdivided into 30 different types by PFGE, into 21 by means of RAPD and 18 by 16S-23S-spacer amplification. PFGE had the highest discriminatory potential, however, a combined use of the three typing methods allows a more detailed differentiation even of those isolates with identical PFGE pattern. Both amplification procedures were rapid, easy in handling with reproductable results. For a temporary epidemiological analysis within 24 hours, both amplification methods could be combined. In case the investigated isolates were still suspected of showing a "clonal identity", they should be analysed by additional PFGE (lasting about four days). Although the international isolates were chosen by random selection, several MRSA strains with identical pattern could be found in different countries of the world. Some RAPD-, spacer- and PFGE pattern were constant over many years. This reflects a high genetic stability of single strains.
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- F J Schmitz
- Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Virologie der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates were collected during two eight-month periods in 1991 and 1994, respectively. In order to study the epidemiology, all 74 strains were characterized by phage-typing, antibiotic resistance patterns and DNA-restriction map after cleavage with SmaI enzyme, and pulsed-filed gel electrophoresis (PFGE). These investigations confirmed that MRSA in the hospital, 1991 and 1994, was not due to the spread of one or two clones, but by the simultaneous occurrence of a few well characterized strains and sporadic, occurring strains of different phage-types. Some of these might have developed from the more commonly occurring strains. Isolates from 1994 were more resistant to antibiotics in vitro, than the 1991 isolates. The typing results also indicated that whilst most of the MRSA strains in 1994 were different compared with those of 1991, some of the strains might have been present in both years. The PFGE-typing was more discriminatory and gave a higher typability than the phage-typing, especially among the multiply resistant isolates of MRSA from 1994. Among the less resistant strains the phage-typability was high and with only few exceptions, there was a good correlation between PFGE-type and phage-type.
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- G Młynarczyk
- Department of Clinical Bacteriology, Medical Academy, Warsaw, Poland
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Roberson JR, Fox LK, Hancock DD, Gay JM, Besser TE. Prevalence of coagulase-positive staphylococci, other than Staphylococcus aureus, in bovine mastitis. Am J Vet Res 1996; 57:54-8. [PMID: 8720238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To determine prevalence and relevance of coagulase-positive Staphylococcus hyicus and S intermedius intramammary infections (IMI) in dairy cows and determine the ability of the 4-hour tube coagulase (TC) test to differentiate the coagulase-positive staphylococci (CPS). DESIGN Prevalence of CPS was determined for primiparous cows (point prevalence and prevalence at first parturition) and multiparous cows (point prevalence) of 2 herd groups: < 6% CPS IMI prevalence = low prevalence (LP); > 10% CPS IMI prevalence = high prevalence (HP). SAMPLE POPULATION For prevalence, cows of 22 dairy herds. For TC, 1,038 CPS strains isolated from cow milk. PROCEDURE Speciation of CPS from aseptically collected composite milk samples was performed. Coagulase-positive isolates from 4 cow groups were tested for their ability to coagulate rabbit plasma by 4 hours: LP and HP primiparous cows at parturition, and LP and HP cows any time after first parturition. RESULTS Of 487 CPS in the prevalence study, 82.1% were S aureus, 17.7% were coagulase-positive S hyicus, and 0.2% were S intermedius. Of all CPS IMI in LP herds, 34% were coagulase-positive S hyicus; of all CPS IMI in HP herds, 9% were coagulase-positive S hyicus. Coagulase-positive S hyicus appeared to persist to the end of lactation in 4 cows (mean linear somatic cell count = 3.7). The TC test was > or = 97% sensitive, < or = 33% specific, and had a predictive value positive range of 60 to 97% for S aureus isolates. CONCLUSION Coagulase-positive S hyicus appears capable of inducing chronic, low-grade IMI. Staphylococcus intermedius does not appear to be an important mastitis pathogen. The TC test is not valid to use as the sole method to differentiate CPS species.
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- J R Roberson
- Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Virginia Technological Institute and State University, Blacksburg, 24061-0442, USA
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Ghosh S, Chatterjee BD, Chakraborty CK, Chakravarty A, Khatua SP. Bacteria in surface infections of neonates. J Indian Med Assoc 1995; 93:132-5. [PMID: 8699037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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A bacteriological work on surface infections was done among live births (study group I) and neonates admitted in hospital (study group II). Out of 134 cases of conjunctivitis in group I Gram-negative bacilli predominated (48.5%) with Escherichia coli accounting for 29 (14.9%) cases, Klebsiella species 15 (11.2%) cases, Citrobacter freundii 3 (2.2%) cases, Pseudomons aeruginosa 18 (13.4%) cases and Aeromonas hydrophila 3 (2.2%) amongst pure isolates (73.9%). Gonococcus was noted in 2 (1.5%) cases. In group II, 41.7% were Staphylococcus aureus in pure growth (75%), compared to only 9.0% in group I. Skin infections were caused by both Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis. Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were the principal insolates from umbilical sepsis. Pseudomonas aeruginosa was isolated as pure growth from local site of noma neonatorum. Anaerobic cultures were negative in all except in 2 cases of umbilical sepsis with tetanus neonatorum revealing Clostridium tetani which however proved to be non-toxigenic. Blood cultures were positive in 4 out of 14 cases bearing 50% correlation with bacteria from surface infections. A source study established partial correlation with the cases of pseudomonas conjunctivitis. Phage typing of Staphylococcus aureus and biochemical typing failed to detect any definite marker of clinical entities, except that the skin infections were caused by group III phages predominantly (65.0%).
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- S Ghosh
- North Bengal Medical College, Darjeeling
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Over a 14 year period, there were 20 patients who presented with staphylococcal empyema from whom methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was isolated. Twelve cases were community-acquired and 8 were hospital-acquired infections. Patients were treated with penicillinase-resistant penicillin, cephalosporin or carbapenem in combination with or without aminoglycoside. They were also treated with drainage or thoracentesis. However, they were refractory to treatment and 7 patients, 6 of whom were suffering from bacteremia, died. One bacteremic patient was treated with vancomycin and was cured. In an area of endemic MRSA, vancomycin may be the first choice in the initial treatment of staphylococcal empyema until antimicrobial susceptibility can be determined.
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- K Fujita
- Department of Pediatrics, Asahikawa Medical College, Japan
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Bouza E, Martínez Beltran J. Staphylococci in Spain. J Chemother 1989; 1:15-7. [PMID: 16312285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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- E Bouza
- Servicios de Microbiología Clinica del Hospital General, Gregorio Marañón s y del Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain
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Sheleg VA. [Classification of pulmonary suppurations]. Klin Med (Mosk) 1982; 60:103-106. [PMID: 7154622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Muromskiĭ IA, Sazonov AM, Kotova OI, Kriuchkova GS, Liashchenko VI. [Staphylococcal destruction of the lungs]. Sov Med 1978:82-7. [PMID: 349710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Pulverer G. [Situation report on the research of Staphylococci]. Hippokrates 1976; 47:343-54. [PMID: 1002551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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