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| Year : 2011 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 318-319 |
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Antibiotic resistance and molecular subtypes of clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a teaching hospital
E Zeinali, R Moniri, GH Musavi
Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan; Department of Biostatic, School of Health, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
| Date of Submission | 14-Mar-2011 |
| Date of Acceptance | 13-Jun-2011 |
| Date of Web Publication | 17-Aug-2011 |
Correspondence Address:
R Moniri
Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan; Department of Biostatic, School of Health, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan
Iran
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DOI: 10.4103/0255-0857.83926
How to cite this article:
Zeinali E, Moniri R, Musavi G H. Antibiotic resistance and molecular subtypes of clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a teaching hospital. Indian J Med Microbiol 2011;29:318-9 |
How to cite this URL:
Zeinali E, Moniri R, Musavi G H. Antibiotic resistance and molecular subtypes of clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a teaching hospital. Indian J Med Microbiol [serial online] 2011 [cited 2021 Mar 8];29:318-9. Available from: https://www.ijmm.org/text.asp?2011/29/3/318/83926 |
Dear Editor,
Emergence of multi-drug resistant methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MDR-MRSA) has profoundly affected the choice of empirical treatment for staphylococcal infection. This descriptive study was done on 87 MRSA isolates which were collected from the clinical samples of patients from a tertiary teaching hospital in Kashan, Iran, in 2010. The isolates were tested for antibiotic resistance by the disc diffusion method for 10 antimicrobials. The MRSA genotypes were determined by a multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based on the staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec).
All the isolates remained susceptible to vancomycin and low resistance rates were noted for amikacin (13.8%). Three (3.4%) of MRSA strains were SCCmec type I, 12 (13.8%) SCCmec type II, 8 (9.2%) SCCmec type IVb, 4 (4.6%) SCCmec type IVd and 3 (3.4%) SCCmec type V. Interestingly, there was also a high frequency of non-typeable strains 51 (58.6%) as they did not show any characteristic bands.
The resistance rates of the isolates to 10 antimicrobial agents are summarised in [Table 1]. The SCCmec type II is harboured by hospital acquired MRSA (HA-MRSA) and usually presents multi-drug resistant MRSA strains. [1] Other studies reported a higher prevalence of SCCmec type II in MRSA isolates. [2] No SCCmec type III element was detected in the MRSA isolates in this study in contrast to other reports of SCCmec type III (HA-MRSA) prevalence from 14 to 52%. [3],[4] | Table 1: The resistance rates of the 87 MRSA isolates to 10 antimicrobial agents
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The second most common type was SCCmec type IVb which were all sensitive to amikacin but showed high resistance rates to erythromycin, clindamycin, tetracycline and sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim. CA-MRSA is typically characterised by the presence of SCCmec IV, V or VII which is susceptible to non-β-lactams.[5]
In conclusion, all MRSA isolates from the teaching hospital were multi-drug-resistant, and SCCmec type II and type IV predominated. Effective hospital control practices need to be reinforced to avoid transmission of multi-drug resistant organisms.
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