Prevalence of antibiotic resistance and virulence factors encoding genes in clinical Staphylococcus aureus isolates in Saudi Arabia

Although the number of MRSA and fnBPA-positive S. aureus reported in this study is generally low, and despite the absence of PVL and van-encoding genes, the results reported in this study may continue to shed some light on the prevalence of MRSA in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Further epidemiological surveys are required together with additional infection control measures to limit the spread of MRSA particularly multidrug-resistant strains.