Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3348181 | Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease | 2007 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Community-acquired infections by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in the absence of classic risk factors for MRSA diseases have been reported in different continents. In the article presented here, using molecular typing methods as pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec typing, and multilocus sequence typing, we characterized CA-MRSA isolates from Rio Janeiro and Porto Alegre. The results indicated the presence of international CA-MRSA clones in these 2 Brazilian cities. In addition, Panton–Valentine leukocidin and a number of staphylococcal enterotoxin encoding genes were accessed in these MRSA isolates by polymerase chain reaction detection.
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Authors
Apoena Ribeiro, Amada Zambrana Coronado, Maria Cícera Silva-Carvalho, Bernadete Teixeira Ferreira-Carvalho, Cícero Dias, Ronaldo Rozenbaum, Pedro Fernandez Del Peloso, Cassiana da Costa Ferreira Leite, Lenise Arneiro Teixeira, Agnes Marie Sá Figueiredo,