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Adult methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in Taiwan: clinical significance of non-multi-resistant antibiogram and Panton-Valentine leukocidin gene.

Wang JL, Wang JT, Chen SY, Hsueh PR, Kung HC, Chen YC, Chang SC

Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 100, Taiwan.

It is poorly defined whether or not adult patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia with a non-multi-resistant antibiogram phenotype and Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) gene carriage have different clinical syndromes. Clinical characteristics of 95 adult patients of MRSA bacteremia, with isolates that were non-multi-resistant to non-beta-lactam, were compared with a contemporaneous multiresistant group. Independent risk factors other than community-associated MRSA bacteremia patients associated with recovery of non-multi-resistant MRSA isolates by multivariate analysis included deep-seated infection and catheter insertion site infection. Older age, intensive care unit-onset bacteremia, and postoperative infection were negative independent risk factors associated with non-multi-resistant MRSA isolates. Most of the 60 recoverable non-multi-resistant MRSA isolates belonged to multilocus sequence type 59, and all isolates belonged to staphylococcal chromosomal cassette mec (SCCmec) element type IV or type V. Most PVL-positive MRSA isolates belonged to SCCmec V. PVL-positive CA-MRSA isolates could cause more deep-seated infections in patients presented with non-multi-resistant MRSA bacteremia.

Published 7 December 2007 in Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis, 59(4): 365-71.
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