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Vesterholm-Nielsen M, Ølholm Larsen M, Elmerdahl Olsen J, Møller Aarestrup E. Occurrence of the blaZ gene in penicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from bovine mastitis in Denmark. Acta Vet Scand 2000. [PMID: 10605145 DOI: 10.1186/bf03547026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Fifty-eight penicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates of known phage types from bovine mastitis in Denmark from the 1950'ties (10 isolates) and the 1990'ties (48 isolates) were tested for beta-lactamase production. Furthermore, the presence of blaZ and blaR1 and the location of blaZ was determined by PCR and hybridisation. All isolates produced beta-lactamase and contained blaZ and blaR1. The blaZ gene was located on the chromosome in 54 isolates and on plasmids of different sizes in 4 isolates. Sequence analysis of an internal region of blaZ in 2 isolates of bovine origin showed a high degree of homology to already published sequences from human isolates. BlaZ could be transferred from the 4 isolates with plasmid location whereas it was not possible to transfer blaZ from 3 isolates with chromosomal location of the gene. The blaZ gene and the blaR1 gene were located closely to each other as previously published. In contrast to observations among isolates of human origin, no correlation between penicillin resistance and phage pattern was indicated for the bovine isolates. Furthermore, in contrast to the observed shift towards increased occurrence of plasmid location of blaZ among isolates of human origin in Denmark, blaZ appears to remain predominately chromosomal located among isolates of bovine origin.
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Rohani MY, Raudzah A, Lau MG, Zaidatul AA, Salbiah MN, Keah KC, Noraini A, Zainuldin T. Susceptibility pattern of Staphylococcus aureus isolated in Malaysian hospitals. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2000; 13:209-13. [PMID: 10724026 DOI: 10.1016/s0924-8579(99)00129-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Isolates of 390 Staphylococcus aureus were tested against 13 different antibiotics by a disc diffusion method as recommended by the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS). Strains were isolated from blood (5.7%), cerebrospinal fluid (0.5%), respiratory tract (11.8%), pus and wound (73.3%), urine (1.8%), genital specimens (1.0%) and other specimens (4.3%). Only 4.6% of the isolates were fully susceptible to all the drugs tested. Resistance to penicillin was 94.1%, methicillin, 39.7%, chloramphenicol, 8.5%, ciprofloxacin, 29.2%, clindamycin, 2.1%, erythromycin, 45.9% gentamicin, 40.5%; rifampicin, 3.3% tetracycline, 47.2%, co-trimoxazole, 38.5%, mupirocin, 2.8%, fusidic acid, 3.6%. None of the isolates was resistant to vancomycin. The susceptibility of methicillin-resistant strains to erythromycin, gentamicin, tetracycline and ciprofloxacin was low, while clindamycin, fusidic acid, mupirocin, and rifampicin remained active.
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- M Y Rohani
- Bacteriology Division, Institute for Medical Research, Jalan Pahang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Frimodt-Møller N, Espersen F, Skinhøj P, Rosdahl VT. Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in Denmark from 1957 to 1990. Clin Microbiol Infect 1997; 3:297-305. [PMID: 11864124 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1997.tb00617.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the changes in epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus (SA) bacteremia in Denmark over a 30-year period, where the population has remained stable. METHODS: Bacteriologic and clinical data were generated on 17 712 SA strains from virtually all SA bacteremia cases in Denmark from 1957 to 1990 submitted to our laboratory for phage typing. The data were related to information about population, hospital activity and blood-culturing activity during that period. RESULTS: SA bacteremia cases increased from 3 to 20/100 000 inhabitants per year, with the largest increases in incidence rates for the <1-year and >50-year age groups. While blood-culturing activity increased three-fold during the period, the rate of SA bacteremias actually decreased relative to the number of blood cultures taken. The increase in SA bacteremia cases was mainly due to increases in nosocomial infections for all age groups and was related to the increasing admission rates to Danish hospitals. Major shifts in antibiotic resistance patterns and phage types took place during the period, i.e. a marked reduction in multiresistant (including methicillin-resistant) strains, but could not explain the change in the epidemiology of the infections. CONCLUSIONS: The data indicate that increases in SA bacteremia rates correlated significantly with increasing numbers of admissions to hospitals. The main increase in SA bacteremia rates was represented by nosocomial infection, although increasing blood-culturing activity during the period may have contributed.
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Olesen B, Kolmos HJ, Orskov F, Orskov I. A comparative study of nosocomial and community-acquired strains of Escherichia coli causing bacteraemia in a Danish University Hospital. J Hosp Infect 1995; 31:295-304. [PMID: 8926379 DOI: 10.1016/0195-6701(95)90208-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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In a previous study we found a considerably higher mortality rate in patients with nosocomial (NO) compared with community-acquired (CA) Escherichia coli bacteraemia. To establish whether this was due to host differences or to differences in the infecting bacteria, we compared 205 NO with 172 CA bacteraemic isolates of E. coli with respect to serotype, virulence factors and antimicrobial susceptibility. Overall the six most frequent O antigens were O18ac, O6, O1, O2, O15 and O75, respectively. The six most frequent capsular antigens were K1, K5, K52, K2, K7 and K34, respectively. No major differences were found regarding O-antigens, capsular antigens, production of haemolysin, P-fimbriation, serum sensitivity or antimicrobial susceptibility. Surprisingly we found 17 strains of serotype O15:K52:[H1] of both NO (eight) and CA (nine) origin with similar phenotypic characteristics to a strain causing a CA outbreak in London 1986-1987. Possibly the Danish and the English strains belong to the same clone. Our findings argue against the existence of a distinct NO flora. NO E. coli bacteraemia strains seem to originate primarily from the patients' own flora.
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- B Olesen
- Department of Clinical Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Eriksen NH, Espersen F, Rosdahl VT, Jensen K. Carriage of Staphylococcus aureus among 104 healthy persons during a 19-month period. Epidemiol Infect 1995; 115:51-60. [PMID: 7641838 PMCID: PMC2271555 DOI: 10.1017/s0950268800058118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The present study was undertaken to investigate the frequency of the nasal carrier rate of Staphylococcus aureus. The investigation was performed on 104 healthy persons. The total number of swabs performed was 1498 and this resulted in isolation of 522 S. aureus strains. All strains have been identified, tested for antibiotic susceptibility, and phage-typed. The carrier-index (number of positive swabs/number of total swabs for each individual person) was compared with different sampling and culturing methods, phage type, age, and resistance to antibiotics. There was statistical difference in carrier rate according to sex (P < 0.05). Among the 104 persons 15 (14.4%) were persistent carriers, 17 (16.3%) intermittent carriers, 55 (52.9%) occasional carriers and 17 (16.3%) non-carriers. Among intermittent and occasional carriers the phage-type distribution was different from the S. aureus strains isolated from Danish hospitalized patients in 1992, while the persistent carriers had similar phage-type distribution.
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- N H Eriksen
- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Statens Seruminstitut, Copenhagen
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Espersen F, Rosdahl VT, Frimodt-Młller N, Skinhøj P. Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in Denmark. J Chemother 1994; 6:219-25. [PMID: 7830097 DOI: 10.1080/1120009x.1994.11741155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The number of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia cases has increased annually in Denmark during the latest decades. This increase has occurred among older patients with hospital-acquired bacteremia. Methicillin-resistance, which earlier was a property of strains of the 83A phage-complex, has nearly disappeared, while the frequency of penicillin-resistance has increased. Today both the phage-type pattern and antibiotic resistance are nearly similar for strains from hospital-acquired and community-acquired cases. In hospitals the frequency of bacteremia after postoperative wound infections has decreased, while cases associated with intravascular catheters has increased, and these infections are now the most common cause of hospital-acquired S. aureus bacteremia. Endocarditis is most commonly found in community-acquired cases without an identified primary focus in patients between 21-50 years. Also hematogenous osteomyelitis is most common in community-acquired cases, but these infections have changed to having a high predilection for the vertebral column, and the prevalence of chronic cases has decreased.
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- F Espersen
- Division of Preventive Microbiology, State Seruminstitute, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Eriksen NH, Espersen F, Rosdahl VT, Jensen K. Evaluation of methods for the detection of nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus. APMIS 1994; 102:407-12. [PMID: 8068299 DOI: 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1994.tb04891.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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In the present study we investigate the optimal methodology for determination of the nasal carriage rate of Staphylococcus aureus. Tests were performed on 91 healthy laboratory staff. The reproducibility of different sampling, transportation, storage and culture methods was examined. We compared sterile dry cotton wool swabs with sterile dry cotton wool swabs impregnated with charcoal and 5% blood agar plates with mannitol salt agar plates after different incubation periods. Finally, we investigated the detection rate for S. aureus following direct plating compared to storage in Stuart's transport medium for 7 days. There were no differences in isolation rates from the right or left nostril using either cotton or charcoal swabs. Charcoal swabs gave an increased isolation rate as compared to cotton swabs, and incubation in broth enrichment medium containing 6.5% NaCl also increased the isolation rate. Storage in Stuart's transport medium for 7 days gave an increase in isolation rate as compared to direct plating on blood agar. With mannitol salt agar plates the increase in isolation rate when incubation was performed for from 2 to 4, 2 to 7, and 4 to 7 days was 5.9%, 16.7%, and 11.5%, respectively. For the detection of S. aureus nasal carriers we find the use of charcoal swabs and Stuart's transport medium combined with cultivation on mannitol salt agar for 7 days to be the optimal method.
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- N H Eriksen
- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Statens Seruminstitut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Knudsen AM, Rosdahl VT, Espersen F, Frimodt-Møller N, Skinhøj P, Bentzon MW. Catheter-related Staphylococcus aureus infections. J Hosp Infect 1993; 23:123-31. [PMID: 8097216 DOI: 10.1016/0195-6701(93)90016-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Among 3394 patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia from the years 1986-89, 88 patients were found whose intravenous catheter and blood grew organisms of the same phage type. Strains of phage type 95 were more frequent among the patients with confirmed catheter-related bacteraemia than among other bacteraemia cases. Strains with particular phage-type patterns occurring with increasing frequency in Denmark during recent years also occurred with significantly higher frequencies among the confirmed catheter-related bacteraemias. No major differences in antibiotic resistance were observed. Patients with catheter-related bacteraemia had, in spite of a higher frequency of underlying diseases, a lower mortality compared with other bacteraemia patients, and endocarditis occurred less frequently (2% vs. 6%). Among 201 S. aureus isolates from catheters in 1988 only strains of group I occurred with increased frequency. The possible role of catheters as selection pressure on the S. aureus population is discussed.
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- A M Knudsen
- Staphylococcus Laboratory, Statens Seruminstitut, Denmark
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Faber M, Rosdahl VT. Changing pattern of phage group II Staphylococcus aureus infections: from community to hospital. SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES 1993; 25:647-53. [PMID: 8284650 DOI: 10.3109/00365549309008555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Changes in Staphylococcus aureus strains of phage group II were evaluated over a 30-year period. Strains of this group were previously known to be mainly community-acquired, to be rather sensitive to antibiotics and to occur in infections with better clinical outcome. During the period 1961 to 1990 a total of 551, 563 S. aureus strains was characterized according to antibiotic resistance, phage type and site of isolation. Clinical information was obtained on 16,781 bacteraemia cases. Strains of group II occurred until 1983 with a rather constant frequency around 16% of the S. aureus population. Since then, a constant increase in frequency has taken place and since 1990 they are the most frequently isolated phage pattern (22%). Bacteraemia caused by these strains occurs today with the same frequency in hospital and community as strains of other phage patterns. Moreover, these strains have changed from being highly susceptible, to being more resistant to penicillins and tetracycline than the rest of the population. Resistance to methicillin remained low in group II strains throughout the period (about 0.2%). Mortality rate and the proportion of patients with underlying diseases have been the same in recent years regarding group II strains as with other strains. This study indicates that the previous distinction between community-acquired and hospital-acquired S. aureus infections is no longer valid.
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- M Faber
- Staphylococcus Laboratory, Statens Seruminstitut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Shuhaibar MN, Falkiner FR. The prevalence, antibiotic susceptibility and phage-type of nasally carried Staphylococcus aureus in the Dublin community. Ir J Med Sci 1992; 161:589-92. [PMID: 1478839 DOI: 10.1007/bf02942364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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A study was undertaken to determine the distribution, antibiotic susceptibility and phage type pattern of nasally-carried Staphylococcus aureus in the community. Coagulase-positive staphylococci were isolated from 180 of 440 individuals. The rate was higher in the inner city and among young adults and middle-aged males. The isolates were examined for phage-type patterns and antibiotic susceptibility. Most (60.6%) of the isolates were typable either at Routine Test Dilution (RTD) or at 100 RTD. Most belonged to phage group I (53.2%) and phage group III (21.1%). Susceptibility to penicillin and ampicillin was low at 12.3 and 15.5% respectively. All were susceptible to vancomycin. Methicillin-resistance was unexpectedly low at 0.6% whereas tetracycline and erythromycin resistance were in line with recent trends at 4.5 and 2.7%. The rate of multiple resistance was low at 2.3%.
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- M N Shuhaibar
- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Trinity College, Dublin
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Renneberg J, Rosdahl VT. Epidemiological studies of penicillin resistance in Danish Staphylococcus aureus strains in the period 1977-1990. SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES 1992; 24:401-9. [PMID: 1411305 DOI: 10.3109/00365549209052624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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During the period 1977-1990 the frequency of penicillin resistance increased from 78.7 to 87.5% among a total of 278,193 Danish Staphylococcus aureus strains from hospitalized patients. By combining these data with phage-type patterns the increase was shown to be caused by 1) the introduction and spread of mainly resistant strains of type 95 and the 94,96 complex; 2) an increased occurrence of strains of group II which during the observation period became more frequently penicillin resistant; and 3) a gradual disappearance of strains of group III and the 83A complex which showed a decreasing degree of penicillin resistance. During the observation period community acquired strains reached nearly the same level of penicillin resistance as the hospital-acquired strains, and the frequency of penicillin resistance did not increase during hospitalization among the predominant strains of type 95, group II and the 94,96 complex. S. aureus isolated from airways had a higher frequency of penicillin resistance mainly caused by increasing amount of penicillin resistant strains of group II. Strains from urine had a lower frequency of penicillin resistance. The total antibiotic consumption and the usage of beta-lactam antibiotics remained nearly unchanged during the observation period. The frequent use of beta-lactam antibiotics for airway infections might explain the possible selection of penicillin resistant strains of group II.
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- J Renneberg
- Division of Preventive Microbiology, Statens Seruminstitut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Schønheyder H, Jensen KT, Pers C, Korsager B, Rosdahl VT. Spread of Staphylococcus aureus strains of phage-type 95 in Denmark 1968–1989. J Hosp Infect 1992; 20:25-34. [PMID: 1348069 DOI: 10.1016/0195-6701(92)90058-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The spread of Staphylococcus aureus strains of phage-type 95 was traced retrospectively in Denmark by the review of more than 15,000 S. aureus bacteraemia isolates (1957-88) and from data collected by phage-typing of c. 260,000 isolates from all body sites (1977-89). The first two type 95 strains had been isolated from blood in 1968, and after an interval of 3 years there was a steady increase of bacteraemia strains all over Denmark. From 1977 to 1989 the incidence of type 95 strains among isolates from all body sites increased from 3.8 to 18.8%. Different patterns of increase were recorded in 13 major hospitals and in various clinical departments of two hospitals and these were further analysed. Conjunctival swabs gave the highest percentage of type 95 strains and those from abscesses gave the lowest percentage. Of the type 95 bacteraemia strains 90.4% were resistant to penicillin, but neither methicillin nor gentamicin resistance was recorded.
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- H Schønheyder
- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Statens Seruminstitut, Denmark
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Mackintosh CA, Marples RR, Kerr GE, Bannister BA. Surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in England and Wales, 1986-1990. J Hosp Infect 1991; 18:279-92. [PMID: 1682366 DOI: 10.1016/0195-6701(91)90185-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in England and Wales was monitored by a weekly reporting scheme from early 1986 to March 1990. Potential coverage was approximately two-thirds of hospital beds. Reporting centres fell from a peak of 210 in 1986 to a low of 101 centres early in 1989 with later recovery. There were 2367 positive reports in 1986, 2174 in 1987, 1700 in 1988, 1701 in 1989 and 632 in the first quarter of 1990. Colonizations outnumbered infections by 2:1. There were marked regional differences: North-East Thames was dominant in 1986 and 1987, and then declined; South-East Thames showed a dramatic increase in 1988 which continued. Other regions showed less significant changes but there were continuing problems in the South-Western Region and in the West Midlands. Some of these changes were related to the decline of EMRSA-1, possibly due to the introduction of effective control measures, and to the emergence of EMRSA-3 in South-East Thames and its spread to Wessex.
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- C A Mackintosh
- Division of Hospital Infection, Central Public Health Laboratory, Colindale, London
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Rosdahl VT, Westh H, Jensen K. Antibiotic susceptibility and phage-type pattern of Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from patients in general practice compared to strains from hospitalized patients. SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES 1990; 22:315-20. [PMID: 2142539 DOI: 10.3109/00365549009027053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Phage-type patterns and antibiotic susceptibility have been examined in 904 Staphylococcus aureus strains from general practice in the Copenhagen municipality, in 1107 strains from hospitals in the Copenhagen municipality and in 18,028 strains isolated in 1988 from inpatients all over Denmark. The phage-type patterns of the 3 materials were very similar except for a slightly higher frequency of group II strains among isolates from general practice (24% compared to 19%). Penicillin resistance was high (86-87%) in all materials. Resistance to tetracycline and erythromycin was more frequent in strains from general practice (8.6% and 3.8%) than in strains both from hospitals in the same area (3.6% an 2.2%) and in all Danish hospitals (5.3% and 2.4%). This indicates that the restrictive use of antibiotics in hospitals seems to have eliminated the previous preponderance of multiresistant staphylococci in hospitals compared to community acquired staphylococci. It even seems as if the less restrictive use of tetracycline and erythromycin in general practice has now inversed the situation.
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- V T Rosdahl
- Staphylococcus Laboratory, Statens Seruminstitut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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WESTH HENRIK, ROSDAHL VIBEKETHAMDRUP, FRIIS HENRIK. Erythromycin resistance in DanishStaphylococcus aureushospital strains with emphasis on Erythromycin consumption. APMIS 1989. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1989.tb00526.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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