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 5 (2008), Issue 7 (July)

1. Emergence of Carbapenem resistant Gram negative and vancomycin resistant Gram positive organisms in bacteremic isolates of febrile neutropenic patients: a descriptive study.
   BMC Infect Dis, 8: 80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Rapid identification of hospitalized patients at high risk for MRSA carriage.
   J Am Med Inform Assoc, 15(4): 506-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Protecting Patients from Harm: Reducing Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections.
   Adv Skin Wound Care, 21(7): 341-342. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Four Country Healthcare Associated Infection Prevalence Survey 2006: overview of the results.
   J Hosp Infect, 69(3): 230-248. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. The Effects of Antibiotics Combined with Natural Polyphenols against Clinical Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
   Planta Med, 74(8): 840-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Therapy of spinal wound infections using vacuum-assisted wound closure: risk factors leading to resistance to treatment.
   J Spinal Disord Tech, 21(5): 320-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Protecting patients from harm: reducing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections.
   Adv Skin Wound Care, 21(7): 335-40; quiz 341-2. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Seawater requirement for the production of lipoxazolidinones by marine actinomycete strain NPS8920.
   J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol, 35(7): 761-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Real-time optical detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus using lytic phage probes.
   Biosens Bioelectron, 24(1): 151-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Methicillin-resistant superinfection of the wound after body-contouring abdominal surgery.
    Aesthetic Plast Surg, 32(4): 681-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pyomyositis complicated by compartment syndrome in an immunocompetent young woman.
    Am J Emerg Med, 26(6): 737.e3-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Synergistic effects of the combination of galangin with gentamicin against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
    J Microbiol, 46(3): 283-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Isolation and partial characterization of Bacillus subtilis ME488 for suppression of soilborne pathogens of cucumber and pepper.
    Appl Microbiol Biotechnol, 80(1): 115-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Validation study of artificial neural network models for prediction of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage.
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 29(7): 607-14. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Rapid screening for carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by PCR and associated costs.
    J Clin Microbiol, 46(7): 2151-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. DNA typing of cytological samples for retrospective identification of an early case of Panton-Valentine leucocidin-positive, community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia.
    J Clin Microbiol, 46(7): 2457-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Analysis using fluorescence polarization immunoassay for unbound teicoplanin concentration in serum.
    J Clin Pharm Ther, 33(4): 357-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Recurrence of heterogeneous methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among the MRSA clinical isolates in a Japanese university hospital.
    J Antimicrob Chemother, 62(2): 324-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Nursing students' learning of managing cross-infections--scenario-based simulation training versus study groups.
    Nurse Educ Today, 28(6): 664-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Efficient amplification with NASBA of hepatitis B virus, herpes simplex virus and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus DNA.
    J Virol Methods, 151(2): 283-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci on the gowns and gloves of healthcare workers.
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 29(7): 583-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) acquisition in roommate contacts of patients colonized or infected with MRSA in an acute-care hospital.
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 29(7): 600-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Impact of an environmental cleaning intervention on the presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci on surfaces in intensive care unit rooms.
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 29(7): 593-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Efficacy of titanium dioxide photocatalyst for inhibition of bacterial colonization on percutaneous implants.
    J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater, 86(2): 530-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections: risk factors, outcomes, and the influence of methicillin resistance in Calgary, Canada, 2000-2006.
    J Infect Dis, 198(3): 336-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Daptomycin non-susceptible meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA 300 isolate.
    J Med Microbiol, 57: 1036-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Biofilm formation by Scottish clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus.
    J Med Microbiol, 57: 1018-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Increase in the frequency of recovery of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in acute and chronic maxillary sinusitis.
    J Med Microbiol, 57: 1015-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Efficacy of common hospital biocides with biofilms of multi-drug resistant clinical isolates.
    J Med Microbiol, 57: 966-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. The ORFeome of Staphylococcus aureus v 1.1.
    BMC Genomics, 9: 321. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Evaluation of four selective agars and two enrichment broths in screening for MRSA.
    J Clin Microbiol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in collegiate football players.
    Med Sci Sports Exerc, 40(8): 1362-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a low-prevalence setting by polymerase chain reaction with a selective enrichment broth.
    Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis, 61(4): 396-401. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Rapid detection of methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus directly from positive BacT/Alert blood culture bottles using real-time polymerase chain reaction: evaluation and comparison of 4 DNA extraction methods.
    Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis, 61(4): 446-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Unusual form of oxacillin resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical strains.
    Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis, 61(4): 387-95. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. The anti-fungal rAls3p-N vaccine protects mice against the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus.
    Infect Immun. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Successful treatment of meningoencephalitis caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with intravenous linezolid in an allogeneic cord blood stem cell transplant recipient.
    Scand J Infect Dis. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Detecting bacteria and determining their susceptibility to antibiotics by stochastic confinement in nanoliter droplets using plug-based microfluidics.
    Lab Chip, 8(8): 1265-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Resistance profiles in surgical-site infection.
    Future Microbiol, 3: 453-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Antimicrobial efficacy of riboflavin/UVA combination (365 nm) in vitro for bacterial and fungal isolates: a potential new treatment for infectious keratitis.
    Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 49(8): 3402-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Restoration of susceptibility of intracellular methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to beta-lactams: comparison of strains, cells, and antibiotics.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 52(8): 2797-805. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. Potent in vitro activity of tomopenem (CS-023) against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 52(8): 2849-54. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Activities of ceftobiprole, linezolid, vancomycin, and daptomycin against community-associated and hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 52(8): 2974-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Comparative study of the susceptibilities of major epidemic clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to oxacillin and to the new broad-spectrum cephalosporin ceftobiprole.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 52(8): 2709-17. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. Modification in prescribing practices for third-generation cephalosporins and ciprofloxacin is associated with a reduction in meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia rate.
    J Hosp Infect, 69(4): 328-36. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. Vancomycin versus cefazolin prophylaxis for cerebrospinal shunt placement in a hospital with a high prevalence of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
    J Hosp Infect, 69(4): 337-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. Considering the introduction of universal MRSA screening.
    J Hosp Infect, 69(4): 315-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. Antibiotics in the intensive care unit: focus on agents for resistant pathogens.
    Emerg Med Clin North Am, 26(3): 813-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Effects of extracts from Italian medicinal plants on planktonic growth, biofilm formation and adherence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
    J Ethnopharmacol, 118(3): 418-28. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. First confirmation of integron-bearing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
    Curr Microbiol, 57(3): 264-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. National trends in ambulatory visits and antibiotic prescribing for skin and soft-tissue infections.
    Arch Intern Med, 168(14): 1585-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Antimicrobial resistance of old and recent Staphylococcus aureus isolates from poultry: first detection of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant strain ST398.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infections: The Association Between Age and Mortality and Functional Status.
    J Am Geriatr Soc. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals in Tbilisi, the Republic of Georgia, are variants of the Brazilian clone.
    Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis, 27(8): 757-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. Clinical effectiveness of ototopical application of mupirocin ointment in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus otorrhea.
    Otol Neurotol, 29(5): 676-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
56. Risk factors and molecular analysis of panton-valentine leukocidin-positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in healthy children.
    Pediatr Infect Dis J, 27(8): 713-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
57. Prevalence of and risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal colonization in HIV-infected ambulatory patients.
    J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 48(5): 567-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
58. Isolation and Characterization of an Epidemic Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus 15 (EMRSA-15) Variant in the Central United States.
    J Clin Microbiol. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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