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19272210

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-8-7
pubmed:abstractText
Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) with the type IV staphylococcal chromosomal cassette mec (SCCmec) is rarely reported as being acquired in hospital. We report a hospital outbreak, in Grampian, Scotland, of eight cases of skin and soft-tissue infections due to such a strain. All patients had been in the labour, delivery and maternity units of a small community hospital during a 7-month period. Typing by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis showed the isolates to be a single strain closely related to the USA800 lineage (paediatric clone) and additional typing confirmed it as ST5-MRSA-IV. Genes for exfoliative toxin A (ETA) and enterotoxin D were detected by PCR in all the isolates although none carried the Panton-Valentine leukocidin gene. Region-wide surveillance of over 6000 MRSA isolates collected from 1998 to 2004 showed that 95 (1.6%) were closely related to the outbreak strain although only 60 carried the ETA gene. The strain has not been seen elsewhere in Scotland.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0950-2688
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
137
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1242-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Report of a hospital neonatal unit outbreak of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medical Microbiology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, UK. i.m.gould@abdn.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article