Article
Unusually large number of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in a Portuguese hospital.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Aug 1995
Couto I, Melo-Cristino J, Fernandes M L, Garcia T, Serrano N, Salgado M J, Torres-Pereira A, Sanches I S, de Lencastre H
Abstract excerpt
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been endemic in Hospital de Santa Maria, a 1,300-bed teaching hospital in Lisbon, Portugal, since the mid-1980s with a prevalence of 30% in 1993. A total of 54 MRSA and 93 methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) isolates recovered during the...
Topics
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Cross Infection
- DNA Probes
- DNA Transposable Elements
- DNA, Bacterial
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Genetic Variation
- Hospitals, Teaching
- Humans
- Methicillin Resistance
- Phenotype
- Portugal
- Staphylococcal Infections
- Staphylococcus aureus