Study on prevalence and genetic discrimination of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Egyptian hospitals

E Rana, AK Rania, Z Hamdallah… - African Journal of …, 2018 - research.manuscritpub.com
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) continues to be a global problem in
infection control. The highest proportions of MRSA are reported by Jordan, Egypt and …

Diversity of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec structures in coagulase-negative staphylococci and relationship to drug resistance

E Garza-González, D López… - Journal of medical …, 2010 - microbiologyresearch.org
The objective of this study was to determine the distribution of staphylococcal cassette
chromosome mec (SCC mec) elements in meticillin-resistant coagulase-negative …

Antimicrobial resistance in clinical bacterial isolates from horses in the UK

CM Isgren, NJ Williams, OD Fletcher… - Equine Veterinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in horses is important to aid
empirical treatment decisions and highlight emerging AMR threats. Objective To describe …

Amikacin resistance in Staphylococcus pseudintermedius isolated from dogs

RM Gold, ND Cohen, SD Lawhon - Journal of clinical …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Staphylococcus pseudintermedius is the most common microorganism isolated from canine
pyoderma and postoperative wound infections. The prevalence of methicillin-resistant S …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of Staphylococcus epidermidis clinical isolates from hospitalized patients with bloodstream infection obtained in two time periods

VI Martínez-Santos, DA Torres-Añorve… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Background In recent years Staphylococcus epidermidis has been considered an important
and frequent causative agent of health care-associated infections (HAIs), increasing the …

[HTML][HTML] Characterisation of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus from Alexandria, Egypt

S Monecke, AK Bedewy, E Müller, SD Braun, C Diezel… - Antibiotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The present study aims to characterise clinical MRSA isolates from a tertiary care centre in
Egypt's second-largest city, Alexandria. Thirty isolates collected in 2020 were genotypically …

Method for rapid detection and identification of bioagents

DJ Ecker, RH Griffey, R Sampath, SA Hofstadler… - US Patent …, 2011 - Google Patents
Method for detecting and identifying unknown bioagents, including bacteria, viruses and the
like, by a combination of nucleic acid amplification and molecular weight determina tion …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular characterization of femA from Staphylococcus hominis and Staphylococcus saprophyticus, and femA-based discrimination of staphylococcal …

P Vannuffel, M Heusterspreute, M Bouyer… - Research in …, 1999 - Elsevier
The femA gene encodes a protein precursor which plays a role in peptidoglycan
biosynthesis in Staphylococcus aureus and is also considered as a factor influencing the …

Methods for concurrent identification and quantification of an unknown bioagent

DJ Ecker, R Sampath, LB Blyn, SA Hofstadler… - US Patent …, 2010 - Google Patents
The present invention provides methods for the quantification of an unknown bioagent in a
sample by amplification of nucleic acid of the bioagent, and concurrent amplification of a …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular diagnostics of clinically important staphylococci

J Štěpán, R Pantůček, J Doškař - Folia microbiologica, 2004 - Springer
Bacterial species of the genus Staphylococcus known as important human and animal
pathogens are the cause of a number of severe infectious diseases. Apart from the major …