Nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among medical students of Belgrade university

Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo

Volumn 141, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 349-353

  Ćirković, Ivana ^a,b   Djukić, Slobodanka ^a   Vuković, Dragana ^a   Stevanović, Goran ^b   Švabić Vlahović, Milena ^b   Stepanović, Srdjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Carriage; Medical students; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; EXOTOXIN; LEUKOCIDIN; MECA PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; NUC PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS; PANTON-VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN;

ADULT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DIAGNOSIS; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NOSE CAVITY; PROCEDURES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EXOTOXINS; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; NASAL CAVITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84922687043     PISSN: 03708179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/SARH1306349C     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Jevons MP, Rolinson GN, Knox R. Celbenin-resistant staphylococci. Br Med J 1961; 1:124-5.
2. Klevens RM, Morrison MA, Nadle J, Petit S, Gershman K, Ray S, et al. Invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in the United States. JAMA. 2007; 298:1763-71.
3. Brown DF. Detection of methicillin/oxacillin resistance in staphylococci. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2001; 48:65-70.
4. Shore AC, Deasy EC, Slickers P, Brennan G, O'Connell B, Monecke S, et al. Detection of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec type XI carrying highly divergent meA, mecI, mecR1, blaZ and ccr genes in human clinical isolates of clonal compex 130 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2011; 55:3765-73.
5. Ribeiro J, Boyce JM, Zancannaro PQ. Prevalence of methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among patients visiting the emergency room at a tertiary hospital in Brazil. Braz J Infect Dis. 2005; 9:52-5.
6. Morell EA, Balkin DM. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a pervasive pathogen highlights the need for new antimicrobial development. Yale J Biol Med. 2010; 83:223-33.
7. Eady EA, Cove JH. Staphylococcal resistance revisited: communityacquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus-an emerging problem for the management of skin and soft tissue infections. Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2003; 16:103-24.
8. Gillet Y, Issartel B, Vanhems P, Haner C, Wenzel RP. Association between Staphylococcus aureus strains carrying gene for Panton-Valentine leukocidin and highly lethal necrotizing pneumonia in young immunocompetent patients. Lancet. 2002; 359:753-9.
9. Bearman GM, Rosato AE, Assanasen S, Kleiner EA, Elam K, Haner C. Nasal carriage of inducible dormant and community/associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an ambulatory population of predominantly university students. Int J Infect Dis. 2010; 14(Suppl 3):18-24.
10. Brakstad OG, Aasbakk K, Maeland JA. Detection of Staphylococcus aureus by polymerase chain reaction amplification of the nuc gene. J Clin Microbiol. 1992; 30:1654-60.
11. Bignardi GE, Woodford N, Chapman A, Johnson AP, Speller DC. Detection of the mecA gene and phenotypic detection of resistance in Staphylococcus aureus isolates with borderline or low-level methicillin resistance. J Antimicrob Chemother. 1996; 37:53-63.
12. Lina G, Piemont Y, Godail-Gamot F. Involvement of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-producing Staphylococcus aureus in primary skin infections and pneumonia. Clin Infect Dis. 1999; 29:1128-32.
13. Boye K, Bartels MD, Andersen IS, Moller JA, Westh H. A new multiplex PCR for easy screening of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus SCCmec types I-V. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2007; 13:725-7.
14. Lina G, Boutite F, Tristan A, Bes M, Etienne J, Vandenesch F. Bacterial competition for human nasal cavity colonization: role of staphylococcal agr alleles. Appli Environ Microbiol. 2003; 69:18-23.
15. Enright MC, Spratt BG. Multilocus sequence typing. Trends Microbiol. 1999; 7:482-7.
16. Safdar N, Narans L, Gordon B, Maki DG. Comparison of culture screening methods for detection of nasal carriage of methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus: a prospective study comparing 32 methods. J Clin Microbiol. 2003; 41:3163-6.
17. Schuenck RP, Lourenco MC, Iório NL, Ferreira AL, Nouér SA, Santos KR. Improved and rapid detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage using selective broth and multiplex PCR. Res Microbiol. 2006; 157:971-5.
18. Stubbs E, Pegler M, Vickery A, Harbour C. Nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in Australian (pre-clinical and clinical) medical students. J Hosp Infect. 1994; 27:127-4.
19. Higuchi W, Isobe H, Iwao Y, Dohmae S, Saito K, Takano T, et al. Extensive multidrug resistance of coagulase-negative staphylococci in medical students. J Infect Chemother. 2007; 13:63-6.
20. Adesida SA, Abioye OA, Bamiro BS, Brai BI, Smith SI, Amisu KO, et al. Associated risk factors and pulsed field gel electrophoresis of nasal isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from medical students in a tertiary hospital in Lagos, Nigeria. Braz J Infect Dis. 2007; 11:63-9.
21. Berthelot P, Grattard F, Fascia P, Martin I, Mallaval FO, Ros A, et al. Is nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus more prevalent among student healthcare workers? Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2004; 25:364-5.
22. Bischoff WE, Wallis ML, Tucker KB, Reboussin BA, Sherertz RJ. Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage in a student community: prevalence, clonal relationships, and risk factors. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2004; 25:485-91.
23. Baliga S, Bansil R, Suchitra U, Bharati B, Vidyalakshmi K, Shenoy S. Nasal carriage of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in medical students. J Hosp Infect. 2008; 68:91-2.
24. Guclu E, Yavuz T, Tokmak A, Behcet M, Karali E, Ozturk O, et al. Nasal carriage of pathogenic bacteria in medical students: effects of clinic exposure on prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2007; 264:85-8.
25. Vandenesch F, Naimi T, Enright MC, Lina G, Nimmo GR, Heffernan H, et al. Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carrying Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes: worldwide emergence. Emerg Infect Dis. 2003; 9:978-84.
26. Ruimy R, Maiga A, Armand-Lefevre L, Maiga I, Diallo A, Koumaré AK, et al. The carriage population of Staphylococcus aureus from Mali is composed of a combination of pandemic clones and the divergent Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive genotype ST152. J Bacteriol. 2008; 190:3962-8.
27. Müller-Premru M, Strommenger B, Alikadic N, Witte W, Friedrich AW, Seme K, et al. New strains of community-acquired methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus with Panton-Valentine leukocidin causing an outbreak of severe soft tissue infection in a football team. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2005; 24:848-50.
28. 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; 43:1836-42.
29. Francois P, Harbarth S, Huyghe A, Renzi G, Bento M, Gervaix A, et al. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Geneva, Switzerland, 1993-2005. Emerg Infect Dis. 2008; 14:304-7.
30. Monecke S, Berger-Bachi B, Coombs G, Holmes A, Kay I, Kearns A, et al. Comparative genomics and DNA array-based genotyping of pandemic Staphylococcus aureus strains encoding Panton-Valentine leukocidin. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2007; 13:236-49.