Selection for qacA carriage in CC22, but not CC30, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection isolates during a successful institutional infection control programme | Zendy

Jonathan A. Otter | Zendy; Amita Patel | Zendy; Penelope R. Cliff | Zendy; Eugene P. Halligan | Zendy; Olga Tosas | Zendy; Jonathan D. Edgeworth | Zendy

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Selection for qacA carriage in CC22, but not CC30, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection isolates during a successful institutional infection control programme

Author(s) -

Jonathan A. Otter,

Amita Patel,

Penelope R. Cliff,

Eugene P. Halligan,

Olga Tosas,

Jonathan D. Edgeworth

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dks500

Subject(s) - carriage , multilocus sequence typing , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , chlorhexidine , staphylococcus aureus , methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus , mupirocin , typing , genotype , biology , gene , bacteria , genetics , dentistry , pathology

The increasing use of chlorhexidine for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) decolonization raises concerns about reduced susceptibility. We evaluated the carriage of chlorhexidine resistance genes and chlorhexidine susceptibility in MRSA before and after introduction of an institutional MRSA control programme incorporating chlorhexidine-based decolonization in 2004.

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