TY - JOUR
TI - Molecular characteristics of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonizing surgical patients in Greece
AU - Hadjihannas, L.
AU - Psichogiou, M.
AU - Empel, J.
AU - Kosmidis, C.
AU - Goukos, D.
AU - Bouzala, J.
AU - Georgopoulos, S.
AU - Malhotra-Kumar, S.
AU - Harbarth, S.
AU - Daikos, G.L.
JO - Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
PY - 2012
VL - 74
TODO - 4
SP - 420-422
PB - 
SN - 0732-8893
TODO - 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.08.012
TODO - 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
TODO - 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.
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