[HTML][HTML] Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

B Mlynarczyk-Bonikowska, C Kowalewski… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper discusses the mechanisms of S. aureus drug resistance including:(1)
introduction.(2) resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics, with particular emphasis on the mec …

Mobile genetic elements associated with antimicrobial resistance

SR Partridge, SM Kwong, N Firth… - Clinical microbiology …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics, particularly those that are multiresistant, are an
increasing major health care problem around the world. It is now abundantly clear that both …

[HTML][HTML] Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

AS Lee, H De Lencastre, J Garau… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2018 - nature.com
Since the 1960s, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has emerged,
disseminated globally and become a leading cause of bacterial infections in both health …

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: molecular characterization, evolution, and epidemiology

S Lakhundi, K Zhang - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Staphylococcus aureus, a major human pathogen, has a collection of virulence factors and
the ability to acquire resistance to most antibiotics. This ability is further augmented by …

Antibiotic resistance and the MRSA problem

M Vestergaard, D Frees, H Ingmer - Microbiology spectrum, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Staphylococcus aureus is capable of becoming resistant to all classes of antibiotics clinically
available and resistance can develop through de novo mutations in chromosomal genes or …

Coagulase-negative staphylococci

K Becker, C Heilmann, G Peters - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
The definition of the heterogeneous group of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) is
still based on diagnostic procedures that fulfill the clinical need to differentiate between …

Mechanisms of Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

SJ Peacock, GK Paterson - Annual review of biochemistry, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Staphylococcus aureus is a major human and veterinary pathogen worldwide. Methicillin-
resistant S. aureus (MRSA) poses a significant and enduring problem to the treatment of …

Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Epidemiology and Clinical Consequences of an Emerging Epidemic

MZ David, RS Daum - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Staphylococcus aureus is an important cause of skin and soft-tissue infections (SSTIs),
endovascular infections, pneumonia, septic arthritis, endocarditis, osteomyelitis, foreign …

Staphylococcus aureus CC398: host adaptation and emergence of methicillin resistance in livestock

LB Price, M Stegger, H Hasman, M Aziz, J Larsen… - MBio, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Since its discovery in the early 2000s, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
clonal complex 398 (CC398) has become a rapidly emerging cause of human infections …

[HTML][HTML] Bacteria from animals as a pool of antimicrobial resistance genes

MA Argudín, A Deplano, A Meghraoui, M Dodémont… - Antibiotics, 2017 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial agents are used in both veterinary and human medicine. The intensive use of
antimicrobials in animals may promote the fixation of antimicrobial resistance genes in …