SMJ articles in the category "MRSA"

Original Article

Vancomycin MIC Susceptibility Testing of Methicillin-Susceptible and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates: A Comparison Between Etest® and an Automated Testing Method

Background: Vancomycin treatment failures and increased mortality have been reported in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates with minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) >1 μg/mL. Most of this data utilized manual testing to determine the MIC. Recent vancomycin treatment guidelines do not specify the optimal testing method to define the MIC. Methods:…

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Original Article

Universal MRSA Nasal Surveillance: Characterization of Outcomes at a Tertiary Care Center and Implications for Infection Control

Background: Recognition of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal carriage by active surveillance cultures has been widely debated. Our institution implemented universal nasal screening by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for MRSA and isolation of screen positive patients in December 2007. Here we present data about the correlation between screen positivity and…

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Review Article

Vancomycin: Understanding Its Past and Preserving Its Future

The increase in vancomycin use in the 1980s to treat antibiotic-associated colitis and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is largely responsible for the appearance of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus, which in turn spawned isolated cases of vancomycin-resistant S. aureus. Perhaps most worrisome to clinicians are strains of MRSA that are heteroresistant to vancomycin;…

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