MRSA Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about MRSA, including details on methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, hospitals, infection, antibiotic resistance, superbugs.

Volume 3 (2006), Issue 1 (January)

1. Staphylococcus aureus Pneumonia: Emergence of MRSA in the Community.
   Semin Respir Crit Care Med, 26(6): 643-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pyomyositis in an intravenous drug user.
   J Med Microbiol, 55: 123-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Antimicrobial activities of silver dressings: an in vitro comparison.
   J Med Microbiol, 55: 59-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus genotyping using a small set of polymorphisms.
   J Med Microbiol, 55: 43-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the UK.
   Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis, 24(12): 789-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Dumb and dumber--the potential waste of a useful antistaphylococcal agent: emerging fusidic acid resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.
   Clin Infect Dis, 42(3): 394-400. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Changes in the epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in intensive care units in US hospitals, 1992-2003.
   Clin Infect Dis, 42(3): 389-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Prevalence and evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Spanish hospitals between 1996 and 2002.
   J Clin Microbiol, 44(1): 266-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Does nasal cocolonization by methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus strains occur frequently enough to represent a risk of false-positive methicillin-resistant S. aureus determinations by molecular methods?
   J Clin Microbiol, 44(1): 229-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Evolution and molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus epidemic and sporadic clones in Cordoba, Argentina.
    J Clin Microbiol, 44(1): 192-200. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Automated DNA Sequence-Based Early Warning System for the Detection of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Outbreaks.
    PLoS Med, 3(3): e33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. In vitro activity of lauric acid or myristylamine in combination with six antimicrobial agents against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
    Int J Antimicrob Agents, 27(1): 51-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Economic burden associated with multi-resistant Gram-negative organisms compared with that for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a university teaching hospital.
    J Hosp Infect, 62(2): 214-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Implementation of isolation precautions: role of a targeted information flyer.
    J Hosp Infect, 62(2): 163-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Environmental reservoirs of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in isolation rooms: correlation with patient isolates and implications for hospital hygiene.
    J Hosp Infect, 62(2): 187-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Emergence of two populations of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with distinct epidemiological, clinical and biological features, isolated from patients with community-acquired skin infections.
    Br J Dermatol, 154(1): 118-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. ILSMRs (intensifier of beta-lactam-susceptibility in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) from Tara [Caesalpinia spinosa (Molina) Kuntze].
    Phytomedicine, 13(3): 209-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Daptomycin treatment of Staphylococcus aureus experimental chronic osteomyelitis.
    J Antimicrob Chemother, 57(2): 301-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream isolates from Croatia.
    J Antimicrob Chemother, 57(2): 331-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Randomized prospective study on prophylactic antibiotics in clean orthopedic surgery in one ward for 1 year.
    J Orthop Sci, 11(1): 20-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Human immunoglobulin G recognizing fibrinogen-binding surface proteins is protective against both Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis infections in vivo.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 50(2): 511-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Diagnostic PCR analysis of the occurrence of methicillin and tetracycline resistance genes among Staphylococcus aureus isolates from phase 3 clinical trials of tigecycline for complicated skin and skin structure infections.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 50(2): 505-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections.
    Int J Antimicrob Agents, 27(2): 87-96. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. In vitro exposure of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains to vancomycin: does vancomycin resistance occur?
    Int J Antimicrob Agents, 27(2): 168-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. MRSA acquisition in an intensive care unit.
    Am J Infect Control, 34(1): 10-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Decrease in the incidence of mupirocin resistance among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in carriers from an intensive care unit.
    Am J Infect Control, 34(1): 6-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Risk factors for ICU-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections.
    Am J Infect Control, 34(1): 1-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in infected and uninfected diabetic foot ulcers.
    Clin Microbiol Infect, 12(2): 186-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. New strategies to identify patients harbouring antibiotic-resistant bacteria at hospital admission.
    Clin Microbiol Infect, 12(2): 102-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Emergence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 genotype as a major cause of health care-associated blood stream infections.
    Clin Infect Dis, 42(5): 647-56. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. The emergence of vancomycin-intermediate and vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
    Clin Microbiol Infect, 12: 16-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: current perspectives.
    Clin Microbiol Infect, 12: 9-15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. The importance of the development of antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.
    Clin Microbiol Infect, 12: 3-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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