Healthcare-associated infections can occur in different care units and can affect both
patients and healthcare professionals. Bacteria represent the most common cause of …

Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major cause of healthcare-
associated infections in Europe. Many examples have demonstrated that the spread of …

Objectives To determine the prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of carbapenemase-
producing Enterobacteriaceae among hospitalized patients and outpatients attending two …

Skin and chronic wound infections caused by highly antibiotic resistant bacteria such as
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are an increasing and urgent health …

In recent years, quantitative real-time PCR tests have been extensively developed in clinical
microbiology laboratories for routine diagnosis of infectious diseases, particularly bacterial …

The high efficiency and specificity of enzymes make them play an important role in life
activities, but the high cost and low stability of natural enzymes severely limit their …

Inappropriate and excessive use of antibiotics contributes to the emergence of antimicrobial
resistance and adverse patient outcomes including Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) …

Objectives To describe secular trends in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB) and to
assess the impacts of infection control practices, including universal methicillin-resistant …

Severe (life-threatening) meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection
continues to be treated with vancomycin despite accumulating evidence of poor outcome …

Abstract Background Multidrug resistant Staphylococcus aureus is common in both tertiary
and primary health care settings. Emergence of methicillin resistance in S. aureus (MRSA) …