@article{3128392,
    title = "Molecular characteristics of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonizing surgical patients in Greece",
    author = "Hadjihannas, L. and Psichogiou, M. and Empel, J. and Kosmidis, C. and Goukos, D. and Bouzala, J. and Georgopoulos, S. and Malhotra-Kumar, S. and Harbarth, S. and Daikos, G.L.",
    journal = "Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease",
    year = "2012",
    volume = "74",
    number = "4",
    pages = "420-422",
    issn = "0732-8893",
    doi = "10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.08.012",
    keywords = "ciprofloxacin;  clindamycin;  cotrimoxazole;  erythromycin;  fusidic acid;  gentamicin;  rifampicin;  tetracycline, adult;  antibiotic resistance;  article;  bacterial colonization;  bacterium isolate;  controlled study;  female;  Greece;  hospital infection;  human;  major clinical study;  male;  methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection;  molecular cloning;  molecular typing;  priority journal;  surgical patient;  tertiary health care, Carrier State;  Cluster Analysis;  Community-Acquired Infections;  Diagnostic Tests, Routine;  Female;  Genotype;  Greece;  Humans;  Male;  Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus;  Middle Aged;  Molecular Epidemiology;  Staphylococcal Infections",
    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. © 2012 Elsevier Inc."
}