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USA300 genotype community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a cause of surgical site infections.

Patel M, Kumar RA, Stamm AM, Hoesley CJ, Moser SA, Waites KB

Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, THT 229, 1530 3rd Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35294-0006, USA. mukesh@uab.edu

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) strains are increasingly recovered from nosocomial settings. We conducted a retrospective study of surgical site infections (SSI) during 2004 and 2005 to determine the prevalence of CA-MRSA; 57% of MRSA strains tested belonged to the USA300 genotype. CA-MRSA has become a prominent cause of SSI at our institution.

Published 4 October 2007 in J Clin Microbiol, 45(10): 3431-3.
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