Clinical features and molecular characteristics of childhood community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in a medical center in northern Taiwan, 2012

Since first reported in 2002, the rate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among childhood community-associated (CA) S. aureus infection in Taiwan increased significantly up to 2005. There have been no reports on this issue since then. We prospectively collected clinical S. aureus...

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Veröffentlicht in:	BMC infectious diseases 2017-07, Vol.17 (1), p.470-470, Article 470
Hauptverfasser:	Wang, Hong-Kai, Huang, Chun-Yen, Huang, Yhu-Chering
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Age Analysis Anti-Bacterial Agents - pharmacology Bacterial Toxins - genetics Child Child, Preschool Childhood Children Chromosomes Clindamycin Clindamycin - pharmacology Communities Community-Acquired Infections - epidemiology Community-Acquired Infections - microbiology Community-associated Drug resistance Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field Epidemiology Erythromycin Erythromycin - pharmacology Exotoxins - genetics Female Gel electrophoresis Gram-positive bacteria Health aspects Health care facilities Hospitals Humans Infant Laboratories Leukocidin Leukocidins - genetics Male Medical centers Medical records Methicillin Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus - drug effects Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus - genetics Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus - isolation & purification Microbial Sensitivity Tests Multilocus Sequence Typing Pathogens Patients Penicillin Public health Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis Retrospective Studies Risk factors Sequence type 59 Staphylococcal Infections - etiology Staphylococcus aureus Staphylococcus aureus infections Staphylococcus infections Taiwan Taiwan - epidemiology Wounds
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Zusammenfassung:	Since first reported in 2002, the rate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among childhood community-associated (CA) S. aureus infection in Taiwan increased significantly up to 2005. There have been no reports on this issue since then. We prospectively collected clinical S. aureus isolates from the patients
ISSN:	1471-2334 1471-2334
DOI:	10.1186/s12879-017-2560-0