Epidemiological typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): Spa typing versus pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 6-7, 2009, Pages 433-439

  Melin, Sara ^a   Hæggman, Sara ^b   Olsson Liljequist, Barbro ^b   Sjölund, Maria ^c,d   Nilsson, Peter A ^e   Isaksson, Barbro ^f   Löfgren, Sture ^a   Matussek, Andreas ^a,g  

^a RYHOV COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e HALMSTAD HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^g Unilabs   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPA TYPING; SWEDEN;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EXOTOXINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A; SWEDEN;

EID: 70549099677     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540902962749     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Engemann JJ, Carmeli Y, Cosgrove SE, Fowler VG, Bronstein MZ, Trivette SL, et al. Adverse clinical and economic outcomes attributable to methicillin resistance among patients with Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infection. Clin Infect Dis 2003;/36:/592-8.
2. Crum NF, Lee RU, Thornton SA, Stine OC, Wallace MR, Barrozo C, et al. 15-y study of the changing epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Am J Med 2006;/119:/943-51.
3. Asensio A, Canton R, Vaque J, Rossello J, Calbo F, Garcia- Caballero J, et al. Nosocomial and community acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in hospitalized patients (Spain, 1993-2003). J Hosp Infect 2006;/63:/465-71.
4. Jung SI, Shin DH, Park KH, Shin JH. Antimicrobial susceptibility and clonal relatedness between communityand hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from blood cultures. J Microbiol 2006;/44:/336-43.
5. Faria NA, Oliveira DC, Westh H, Monnet DL, Larsen AR, Skov R, et al. Epidemiology of emerging methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Denmark: a nationwide study in a country with low prevalence of MRSA infection. J Clin Microbiol 2005;/43:/1836-1842.
6. Cunningham R, Jenks P, Northwood J, Wallis M, Ferguson S, Hunt S. Effect on MRSA transmission of rapid PCR testing of patients admitted to critical care. J Hosp Infect 2007;/65:/24-8.
7. Schlichting C, Branger C, Fournier JM, Witte W, Boutonnier A, Wolz C, et al. Typing of Staphylococcus aureus by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, zymotyping, capsular typing, and phage typing: resolution of clonal relationships. J Clin Microbiol 1993;/31:/227-32.
8. Carles-Nurit MJ, Christophle B, Broche S, Gouby A, Bouziges N, Ramuz M. DNA polymorphisms in methicillin- susceptible and methicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol 1992;/30:/2092-6.
9. Murchan S, Kaufmann ME, Deplano A, de Ryck R, Struelens M, Zinn CE, et al. Harmonization of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis protocols for epidemiological typing of strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a single approach developed by consensus in 10 European laboratories and its application for tracing the spread of related strains. J Clin Microbiol 2003;/41:/1574-85.
10. Mulvey MR, Chui L, Ismail J, Louie L, Murphy C, Chang N, et al. Development of a Canadian standardized protocol for subtyping methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. J Clin Microbiol 2001;/39:/3481-5.
11. Harmsen D, Claus H, Witte W, Rothganger J, Claus H, Turnwald D, et al. Typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a university hospital setting by using novel software for spa repeat determination and database management. J Clin Microbiol 2003;/41:/5442-8.
12. Matussek A, Taipalensuu J, Einemo IM, Tiefenthal M, Lofgren S. Transmission of Staphylococcus aureus from maternity unit staff members to newborns disclosed through spa typing. Am J Infect Control 2007;/35:/122-5.
13. Shopsin B, Gomez M, Montgomery SO, Smith DH, Waddington M, Dodge DE, et al. Evaluation of protein A gene polymorphic region DNA sequencing for typing of Staphylococcus aureus strains. J Clin Microbiol 1999;/37:/ 3556-3563
14. Tang YW, Waddington MG, Smith DH, Manahan JM, Kohner PC, Highsmith LM, et al. Comparison of protein A gene sequencing with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and epidemiological data for molecular typing of methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol 2000;/38:/ 1347-1351
15. Nilsson P, Alexandersson H, Ripa T. Use of broth enrichment and real-time PCR to exclude the presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in clinical samples: a sensitive screening approach. Clin Microbiol Infect 2005;/11:/1027-34.
16. Maslow J, Slutsky A, Arbeit R. Application of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis to molecular epidemiology. In: Persing D, Smith T, Tenover F, White T, editors. Diagnostic molecular microbiology: principles and applications. Washington, DC: ASM Press; 1993. p. 563-572
17. Lina G, Piemont Y, Godail-Gamot F, Bes M, Peter MO, Gauduchon V, et al. Involvement of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-producing Staphylococcus aureus in primary skin infections and pneumonia. Clin Infect Dis 1999;/29:/ 1128-1132
18. Enright MC, Day NP, Davies CE, Peacock SJ, Spratt BG. Multilocus sequence typing for characterization of methicillin- resistant and methicillin- susceptible clones of Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol 2000;/38:/1008-15.
19. Hunter PR, Gaston MA. Numerical index of the discriminatory ability of typing systems: an application of Simpson's index of diversity. J Clin Microbiol 1988;/26:/2465-6.
20. Rabkin CS, Jarvis WR, Anderson RL, Govan J, Klinger J, LiPuma J, et al. Pseudomonas cepacia typing systems: collaborative study to assess their potential in epidemiologic investigations. Rev Infect Dis 1989;/11:/600-7.
21. van Belkum A, Tassios PT, Dijkshoorn L, Haeggman S, Cookson B, Fry NK, et al. Guidelines for the validation and application of typing methods for use in bacterial epidemiology. Clin Microbiol Infect 2007;/13(Suppl 3):/1-46.
22. Mellmann A, Friedrich AW, Rosenkotter N, Rothganger J, Karch H, Reintjes R, et al. Automated DNA sequence-based early warning system for the detection of methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus outbreaks. PLoS Med 2006;/3:/33.
23. Hallin M, Deplano A, Denis O, de Mendonca R, de Ryck R, Struelens MJ. Validation of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and spa typing for long-term, nationwide epidemiological surveillance studies of Staphylococcus aureus infections. J Clin Microbiol 2007;/45:/127-33.
24. Kahl BC, Mellmann A, Deiwick S, Peters G, Harmsen D. Variation of the polymorphic region X of the protein A gene during persistent airway infection of cystic fibrosis patients reflects 2 independent mechanisms of genetic change in Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol 2005;/43:/502-5.
25. Frenay HM, Bunschoten AE, Schouls LM, van Leeuwen WJ, van den Broucke-Grauls CM, Verhoef J, et al. Molecular typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on the basis of protein A gene polymorphism. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 1996;/15:/60-4.
26. Seybold U, Kourbatova EV, Johnson JG, Halvosa SJ, Wang YF, King MD, et al. Emergence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 genotype as a major cause of healthcare-associated bloodstream infections. Clin Infect Dis 2006;/42:/647-56.