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 11 (November)

1. Successful salvage therapy with tigecycline after linezolid failure in a liver transplant recipient with MRSA pneumonia.
   Liver Transpl, 12(11): 1689-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Survival on Hospital Fomites.
   Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 27(11): 1267-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Comparative Cost of Selective Screening To Prevent Transmission of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Compared With the Attributable Costs of MRSA Infection.
   Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 27(11): 1264-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia in Older Adults: Predictors of 7-Day Mortality and Infection With a Methicillin-Resistant Strain.
   Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 27(11): 1219-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Community-Acquired Infection With Healthcare-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: The Role of Home Nursing Care.
   Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 27(11): 1213-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Duration of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Carriage, According to Risk Factors for Acquisition.
   Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 27(11): 1206-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Association between the methicillin resistance of clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus, their staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) subtype classification, and their toxin gene profiles.
   Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis, 56(3): 289-95. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Emergence of vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) from a tertiary care hospital from northern part of India.
   BMC Infect Dis, 6: 156. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Nasal Carriage of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Vascular Surgery.
   Ann Vasc Surg. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcal colonization in clinically normal dogs and horses in the community.
    Lett Appl Microbiol, 43(6): 602-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Increased vancomycin MICs for Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates from a university hospital during a 5-year period.
    J Clin Microbiol, 44(11): 3883-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Optimal surveillance culture sites for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in newborns.
    J Clin Microbiol, 44(11): 4234-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. The lantibiotic mersacidin is an autoinducing peptide.
    Appl Environ Microbiol, 72(11): 7270-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. New bisanthraquinone antibiotics and semi-synthetic derivatives with potent activity against clinical Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus faecium isolates.
    Bioorg Med Chem, 14(24): 8446-54. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Mosaic staphylococcal cassette chomosome mec (SCCmec) containing two recombinase loci and a new mec complex, B2.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Validation of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and spa typing for long term, nation-wide epidemiological surveillance studies of Staphylococcus aureus infections.
    J Clin Microbiol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Daptomycin: graduation day.
    Clin Microbiol Infect, 12: 22-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. From theory to practice: resistance in Staphylococcus aureus and new treatments.
    Clin Microbiol Infect, 12: 15-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Gram-positive infections: lessons learnt and novel solutions.
    Clin Microbiol Infect, 12: 3-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Effect of reduction in ciprofloxacin use on prevalence of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus rates within individual units of a tertiary care hospital.
    J Hosp Infect, 64(4): 348-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Efficacy of super-oxidized water fogging in environmental decontamination.
    J Hosp Infect, 64(4): 386-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in children and neonates: a 10 year retrospective review.
    J Infect, 53(6): 387-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Comorbidity risk-adjustment measures were developed and validated for studies of antibiotic-resistant infections.
    J Clin Epidemiol, 59(12): 1266-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Topical ethyl chloride fine spray. Does it have any antimicrobial activity?
    Clin Radiol, 61(12): 1055-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Genotype MRSA, a new genetic test for the rapid identification of staphylococci and detection of mecA gene.
    Pathol Biol (Paris), 54(8): 502-505. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Prevalence of agr specificity groups among methicilin resistant Staphylococcus aureus circulating at Charles Nicolle hospital of Tunis.
    Pathol Biol (Paris), 54(8): 435-438. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Identification of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec encoding methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus isolates at Charles Nicolle Hospital of Tunis.
    Pathol Biol (Paris), 54(8): 453-455. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Isolation of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus from the surface and core of tonsils in children.
    Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol, 70(12): 2099-102. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Is Panton-Valentine leukocidin the major virulence determinant in community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus disease?
    J Infect Dis, 194(12): 1761-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Clinical and microbiological characteristics in cases of positive blood cultures at Shin-Kokura Hospital during a period of 5 years.
    J Infect Chemother, 12(5): 335-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Impact of prophylactic mupirocin for radical esophagectomy.
    J Infect Chemother, 12(5): 257-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Study of nasopharyngeal bacterial flora. Second report. Variations in nasopharyngeal bacterial flora in children aged 6 years or younger when administered antimicrobial agents. Part 2.
    J Infect Chemother, 12(5): 305-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Study of nasopharyngeal bacterial flora. Second report. Variations in nasopharyngeal bacterial flora in children aged 6 years or younger when administered antimicrobial agents. Part 1.
    J Infect Chemother, 12(5): 287-304. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Identification of different clonal complexes and diverse amino acid substitutions in penicillin-binding protein 2 (PBP2) associated with borderline oxacillin resistance in Canadian Staphylococcus aureus isolates.
    J Med Microbiol, 55: 1675-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Synthesis and SAR study of novel 7-(pyridinium-3-yl)-carbonyl imidazo[5,1-b]thiazol-2-yl carbapenems.
    Bioorg Med Chem, 15(1): 392-402. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Prevalence and genetic relatedness of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Israel.
    Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis, 25(11): 719-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Community-acquired MRSA and pig-farming.
    Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob, 5: 26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Increased isolation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in pediatric head and neck abscesses.
    Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg, 132(11): 1176-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Molecular characteristics and in vitro susceptibility to antimicrobial agents, including the des-fluoro(6) quinolone DX-619, of Panton-Valentine leucocidin-positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from the community and hospitals.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 50(12): 4077-86. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing in European hospitals: report from the ARPAC study.
    Clin Microbiol Infect, 12(12): 1185-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Staphylococcal chromosome cassette evolution in Staphylococcus aureus inferred from ccr gene complex sequence typing analysis.
    Clin Microbiol Infect, 12(12): 1175-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. Evaluation of three chromogenic media (MRSA-ID, MRSA-Select and CHROMagar MRSA) and ORSAB for surveillance cultures of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
    Clin Microbiol Infect, 12(12): 1168-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Direct detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in clinical specimens by a nucleic acid-based hybridisation assay.
    Clin Microbiol Infect, 12(12): 1163-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Control of endemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus-recent advances and future challenges.
    Clin Microbiol Infect, 12(12): 1154-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. Bactericidal agents in the treatment of MRSA infections--the potential role of daptomycin.
    J Antimicrob Chemother, 58(6): 1107-17. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. spa typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from domestic animals and veterinary staff in the UK and Ireland.
    J Antimicrob Chemother, 58(6): 1118-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. Evaluation of the extracellular and intracellular activities (human THP-1 macrophages) of telavancin versus vancomycin against methicillin-susceptible, methicillin-resistant, vancomycin-intermediate and vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
    J Antimicrob Chemother, 58(6): 1177-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. Activity of tigecycline against clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus and extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in Granada, Spain.
    Int J Antimicrob Agents, 28(6): 532-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Management of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in children.
    Pharmacotherapy, 26(12): 1758-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection following arthroscopy of the knee joint.
    Ann R Coll Surg Engl, 88(7): 675-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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