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From:Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedByline: Priya. Datta, Hena. Vasdeva, Jagdish. Chander Aims: Active screening for methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers remains a vital component of infection control policy in any health-care...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1308)[S] A 15-month-old male infant developed methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) endocarditis, which became resistant to rifampicin during concurrent use with vancomycin [duration of treatment prior to...
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From:Future Microbiology (Vol. 5, Issue 10)Suppression of the [alpha]-hemolysin toxin produced by S. aureus results in less severe skin and soft tissue infections in mouse model A group working at the University of Chicago (IL, USA) have completed new...
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From:Therapy (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Emilia Cercenado 1 Keywords: complicated intra-abdominal infection; extended-spectrum [beta]-lactamases; GAR-936; glycylcyclines; methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; ribosomal inhibitors; skin...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 12, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedReceipt of fluoroquinolones was the predominant risk factor for Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD) during an epidemic in Quebec, Canada. To determine the role of antimicrobial drugs in facilitating...
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From:Nature (Vol. 527, Issue 7578) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Wolf-Dietrich Hardt (corresponding author) [1] The pathogenic bacterium Staphylococcus aureus causes thousands of deaths each year. Therapy is sometimes unsuccessful, partly because antibiotic-resistance...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) is the key enzyme that catalyzes the first reaction, the oxidation of glucose-6-phosphate to 6-phosphogluconolactone, in the pentose phosphate pathway, thereby...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Nadia K. Qureshi, Shaohui Yin, Susan Boyle-Vavra * Introduction Invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has emerged as a major public health problem, implicated in 18,000 deaths...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Miki Kawada-Matsuo 1, Yuuma Yoshida 1,2, Takeshi Zendo 3, Junichi Nagao 4, Yuichi Oogai 1, Yasunori Nakamura 2, Kenji Sonomoto 3, Norifumi Nakamura 2, Hitoshi Komatsuzawa 1,* Introduction Many bacteria...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Erwin Verkade 1 , 2 , * , Anneke M. C. Bergmans 1 , 3 , Andries E. Budding 4 , Alex van Belkum 5 , 6 , Paul Savelkoul 4 , Anton G. Buiting 2 , Jan Kluytmans 1 , 2 , 4 Introduction Traditionally,...
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From:Journal of Laboratory Physicians (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: Afzal. Husain, Vinita. Rawat, Umesh, Mukesh. Kumar, Pankaj. Verma INTRODUCTION: The efficacy of vancomycin, drug of choice for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), has become questionable due...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedGram-positive bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus, cause serious human illnesses through combinations of surface virulence factors and secretion of exotoxins. Our prior studies using the protein synthesis inhibitor...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe report a case of severe disseminated infection in an immunocompetent man caused by an emerging lineage of methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398. Genes encoding classic virulence factors were...
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From:Advances in Environmental Biology (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedStaphylococcal food poisoning occurs most often in foods that require hand preparation, such as potato salad, ham salad, sandwich spreads, raw foods; unpasteurized milk. S. aureus found on humans (skin, infected cuts,...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 26, Issue 30) Peer-ReviewedThe learning zone article on meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) enabled me to evaluate the management of healthcare-associated infections and infection control policies. I work on a surgical ward and...
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From:Journal of Laboratory Physicians (Vol. 11, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Sumit. Rai, Mukta. Tandon, Narendra. Singh, Vikas. Manchanda, Iqbal. Kaur BACKGROUND: The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute recommends reporting minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values of...
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From:Clinical Advisor (Vol. 12, Issue 7)Impetigo is a common skin infection most often caused by Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus pyogenes. The infection can be primary, occurring in undetected minor superficial breaks in the skin, or secondary to a...
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From:Dermatology Nursing (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are a major source of morbidity and mortality in both the health care setting and, more recently, in the community. The rapid increase in MRSA infections...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground Many studies have evaluated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections during single hospitalizations and subsequent readmissions to the same institution. None have assessed the...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 10, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground Nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in fibronectin binding protein A (fnbA) of Staphylococcus aureus are associated with cardiac device infections. However, the role of fnbA SNPs in S....