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A field guide to pandemic, epidemic and sporadic clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article (publication date: 6 April 2011)

A genomic portrait of the emergence, evolution, and global spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pandemic

scientific article

A microbiological study of absorbent pads

scientific article published on 01 August 1988

A novel hybrid SCCmec-mecC region in Staphylococcus sciuri

scientific article published on 02 December 2013

A pilot study of rapid benchtop sequencing of Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile for outbreak detection and surveillance

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

A point mutation in AgrC determines cytotoxic or colonizing properties associated with phenotypic variants of ST22 MRSA strains

scientific article published on 11 August 2016

A rapid polymerase chain reaction technique for detecting M tuberculosis in a variety of clinical specimens ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1998

A study of three blood culture media for isolating genital mycoplasmas from obstetrical and gynaecological patients

scientific article

A virulence-associated gene microarray: a tool for investigation of the evolution and pathogenic potential of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published in November 2004

Accuracy of Different Bioinformatics Methods in Detecting Antibiotic Resistance and Virulence Factors from Staphylococcus aureus Whole-Genome Sequences

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Adaptation to vancomycin pressure of multiresistant Staphylococcus capitis NRCS-A involved in neonatal sepsis

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

An outbreak of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in a neonatal intensive care unit: use of a case-control study to investigate and control it and lessons learnt

scientific article published on 24 May 2019

Antibacterial activity of honey against community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA).

scientific article published on 4 March 2008

Association of a lukM-positive clone of Staphylococcus aureus with fatal exudative dermatitis in red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris).

scientific article published on 2 November 2012

Cavitatory lung disease complicating empyema in children

scientific article

Circulation of a community healthcare-associated multiply-resistant meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lineage in South Yorkshire identified by whole genome sequencing

scientific article published on 10 August 2019

Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology of Staphylococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome in the United Kingdom

scientific article published in February 2018

Clinical and molecular epidemiology of ciprofloxacin-susceptible MRSA encoding PVL in England and Wales.

scientific article published on 30 May 2009

Clinical features, aetiology and outcome of empyema in children in the north east of England

scientific article published on June 2004

Clinical, molecular and epidemiological description of a cluster of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from injecting drug users with bacteraemia.

scientific article published on 11 November 2009

Clonal expansion of community-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in people who inject drugs (PWID): prevalence, risk factors and molecular epidemiology, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2012 to 2017

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Colonisation of dentures by Staphylococcus aureus and MRSA in out-patient and in-patient populations

scientific article published on 13 June 2015

Combinations of β-lactam or aminoglycoside antibiotics with plectasin are synergistic against methicillin-sensitive and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Community and nosocomial transmission of Panton-Valentine leucocidin-positive community-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: implications for healthcare

scientific article

Community associated MRSA: an alert to paediatricians

scientific article

Community-associated MRSA from the Indian subcontinent.

scientific article published in September 2013

Community-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: epidemiology, microbiology and clinical impact in East Yorkshire, UK.

scientific article

Community-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: nosocomial transmission in a neonatal unit

scientific article published on 22 August 2006

Comparison of PCR detection of mecA with methicillin and oxacillin disc susceptibility testing in coagulase-negative staphylococci

scientific article

Comparison of automated antimicrobial susceptibility testing systems to detect mecC-positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 13 September 2017

Confirmation of LA-MRSA in pigs in the UK

scientific article published on 01 July 2014

Culture-negative childhood empyema is usually due to penicillin-sensitive Streptococcus pneumoniae capsular serotype 1.

scientific article published on January 2003

Decline and fall of epidemic meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus-16 ⬇️

scientific article published on June 12, 2011

Decline of EMRSA-16 amongst methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus causing bacteraemias in the UK between 2001 and 2007.

scientific article published on 24 December 2009

Detection and molecular characterization of Livestock-Associated MRSA in raw meat on retail sale in North West England

scientific article published on 30 December 2016

Detection of diverse genotypes of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from hospital personnel and the environment in Armenia

scientific article

Detection of mecC-Positive Staphylococcus aureus: What To Expect from Immunological Tests Targeting PBP2a?

scientific article published on 15 March 2017

Development of a real-time quadruplex PCR assay for simultaneous detection of nuc, Panton-Valentine leucocidin (PVL), mecA and homologue mecALGA251.

scientific article published on 11 June 2012

Diagnosis of invasive pneumococcal infection by PCR amplification of Streptococcus pneumoniae genomic fragments in blood: a multi-centre comparative study.

scientific article

Differentiation of strains of Mycoplasma fermentans from various sources by pyrolysis mass spectrometry

scientific article

Diphtheria by donation?

scientific article published on 01 February 1999

Distinct Bacteriophages Encoding Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) among International Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clones Harboring PVL ⬇️

scientific article published on November 24, 2010

Distribution of the ACME-arcA gene among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from England and Wales

scientific article published on 7 November 2007

Do differences in Panton-Valentine leukocidin production among international methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones affect disease presentation and severity?

scientific article

Emergence and dissemination of a linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus capitis clone in Europe.

scientific article published on 20 December 2016

Endophthalmitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis

scientific article published on 01 May 1991

Enhanced surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia in children in the UK and Ireland

scientific article published on June 2010

Environmental sampling for MRSA: a note of caution

scientific article published on 19 October 2005

Epidemiology and molecular typing of an outbreak of tuberculosis in a hostel for homeless men.

scientific article published on February 2000

European external quality assessments for identification, molecular typing and characterization of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Evaluation of a Rapid Air Thermal Cycler for Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 1998

Evidence from a UK teaching hospital that MRSA is primarily transmitted by the hands of healthcare workers

scientific article published on 11 February 2010

Evolution and Global Transmission of a Multidrug-Resistant, Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Lineage from the Indian Subcontinent

scientific article published on 26 November 2019

Failure of mebendazole to cure trichomonal vaginitis resistant to metronidazole: case reports.

scientific article

First international spread and dissemination of the virulent Queensland community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain.

scientific article published on 15 July 2009

First isolation of MRSA ST398 from UK animals: a new challenge for infection control teams?

scientific article published on 29 May 2009

First report of identification of livestock-associated MRSA ST9 in retail meat in England.

scientific article published on 20 February 2015

First report of lukM-positive livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus CC30 from fattening pigs in Northern Ireland

scientific article published on 18 November 2015

Genome Sequences of Four Staphylococcus capitis NRCS-A Isolates from Geographically Distant Neonatal Intensive Care Units.

scientific article

Global Scale Dissemination of ST93: A Divergent Epidemic Lineage That Has Recently Emerged From Remote Northern Australia

article

Global epidemiology and evolutionary history of Staphylococcus aureus ST45

journal article published in 2020

Global spread of three multidrug-resistant lineages of Staphylococcus epidermidis

scientific article published on 03 September 2018

Guidelines for reporting novel mecA gene homologues

scientific article

Harnessing the genome: development of a hierarchical typing scheme for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 20 September 2012

Heat resistance of nosocomial enterococci

scientific article

High clonal heterogeneity of Panton–Valentine leukocidin-positive meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains from skin and soft-tissue infections in the Province of Bolzano, Northern Italy ⬇️

scientific article published on April 3, 2012

High diversity of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive, methicillin-susceptible isolates of Staphylococcus aureus and implications for the evolution of community-associated methicillin-resistant S. aureus

scientific article published on 19 October 2007

High interlaboratory reproducibility of DNA sequence-based typing of bacteria in a multicenter study

scientific article

High throughput identification of clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus using MALDI-TOF-MS of intact cells

scientific article

Hydrogen peroxide vapour decontamination in the control of a polyclonal meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus outbreak on a surgical ward

scientific article

Identification and control of a gentamicin resistant, meticillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus outbreak on a neonatal unit

scientific article published on 11 February 2014

Identification and control of an outbreak of ciprofloxacin-susceptible EMRSA-15 on a neonatal unit

scientific article published on 22 October 2007

Identification of commonly expressed exoproteins and proteolytic cleavage events by proteomic mining of clinically relevant UK isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 23 February 2016

Identification of source and sink populations for the emergence and global spread of the East-Asia clone of community-associated MRSA.

scientific article published on 26 July 2016

Implications of identifying the recently defined members of the Staphylococcus aureus complex S. argenteus and S. schweitzeri: a position paper of members of the ESCMID Study Group for Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Diseases (ESGS)

article

Improved understanding of an outbreak of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a regional burns centre via whole-genome sequencing.

scientific article published on 23 September 2016

Incidence, management and outcomes of the first cfr-mediated linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis outbreak in a tertiary referral centre in the Republic of Ireland

scientific article published on 13 January 2015

Is Panton-Valentine leucocidin associated with the pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in the UK?

scientific article published on 11 June 2007

LightCycler-based quantitative PCR for detection of cytomegalovirus in blood, urine, and respiratory samples

scientific article published on June 2001

LightCycler-based quantitative PCR for rapid detection of human herpesvirus 6 DNA in clinical material

scientific article published on August 2001

Linezolid-resistant ST36 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus associated with prolonged linezolid treatment in two paediatric cystic fibrosis patients

scientific article published on 20 January 2010

Livestock origin for a human pandemic clone of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Livestock-Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) Clonal Complex (CC) 398 Isolated from UK Animals belong to European Lineages

scientific article

Livestock-associated MRSA detected in pigs in Great Britain

scientific article published on 01 February 2015

MRSA carriage in a pet therapy dog.

scientific article published in June 2005

MRSA infections among patients in the emergency department: a European multicentre study

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

MRSA spa type t899 from food animals in the UK

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

MRSA: the transmission paradigm investigated

scientific article

Methicillin resistantStaphylococcus aureusemerged long before the introduction of methicillin in to clinical practice

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus emerged long before the introduction of methicillin into clinical practice

scientific article

Methicillin-resistant staphylococci isolated from animals

scientific article published on 18 January 2005

Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): global epidemiology and harmonisation of typing methods.

scientific article

Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in elderly residents of care homes: colonization rates and molecular epidemiology ⬇️

scientific article published on January 17, 2013

Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with a novel mecA homologue in human and bovine populations in the UK and Denmark: a descriptive study

scientific article published on August 2011

Metronidazole-resistant Bacteroides melaninogenicus

scientific article

Molecular Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

scientific article published on 30 May 2017

Molecular characterization and panton-valentine leucocidin typing of community-acquired methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates

scientific article

Molecular diversity within clonal complex 22 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus encoding Panton-Valentine leukocidin in England and Wales

scientific article published in February 2011

Molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from bacteraemia in northern Italy

scientific article published on 01 December 2012

Molecular epidemiology of nasal isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from Jordan

scientific article published on 4 July 2014

Molecular tracing of the emergence, adaptation, and transmission of hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ⬇️

scientific article

Neonatal staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome: clinical and outbreak containment review.

scientific article published on 13 July 2010

Niche specialization and spread of Staphylococcus capitis involved in neonatal sepsis

scientific article published on 27 April 2020

Non-menstrual toxic shock and the in vivo roles of seb and ivig

article

Non-radioactive DNA probe to identify Neisseria gonorrhoeae

scientific article published on January 1989

Nosocomial enterococci: resistance to heat and sodium hypochlorite

scientific article published in July 1995

Novel multiresistance cfr plasmids in linezolid-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) from a hospital outbreak: co-location of cfr and optrA in VRE.

scientific article published on 28 August 2017

Outbreak of Panton-Valentine leucocidin-positive meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a regional burns unit

scientific article published on 8 July 2010

Outbreak of a South West Pacific clone Panton-Valentine leucocidin-positive meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in a UK neonatal intensive care unit

scientific article published on 22 February 2012

Outbreak of ciprofloxacin-susceptible community-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a neonatal unit

scientific article

Outbreak report of investigation and control of an outbreak of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-positive methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (PVL-MSSA) infection in neonates and mothers

scholarly article by G Gopal Rao et al published 20 February 2019 in BMC Infectious Diseases

PCR can add to detection of pneumococcal disease in pneumonic patients receiving antibiotics at admission

scientific article published on October 2000

Panton-Valentine Leucocidin-related disease in England and Wales

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Panton-Valentine Leukocidin associated Staphylococcus aureus infections in London, England: Clinical and socio-demographic characterisation, management, burden of disease and associated costs ⬇️

scientific article published on June 17, 2011

Panton-Valentine leukocidin-encoding bacteriophage and gene sequence variation in community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Pathogens of skin and skin-structure infections in the UK and their susceptibility to antibiotics, including ceftaroline

scientific article published on 4 July 2015

Patient segregation and aggressive antibiotic eradication therapy can control methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at large cystic fibrosis centres

scientific article published on 03 January 2010

Penicillin-insensitive Neisseria meningitidis

scientific article

Phenotypic detection of mecC-MRSA: cefoxitin is more reliable than oxacillin

scientific article

Pneumolysin detection identifies atypical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae.

scientific article published on March 2000

Polyclonal multiply antibiotic-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with Panton-Valentine leucocidin in England

scientific article published in January 2010

Preadmission screening of adults highlights previously unrecognized carriage of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in London: a cause for concern?

scientific article

Prediction of Staphylococcus aureus antimicrobial resistance by whole-genome sequencing.

scientific article published on 05 February 2014

Prolonged outbreak of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a cardiac surgery unit linked to a single colonized healthcare worker ⬇️

scientific article published on January 29, 2013

Prospective genomic surveillance of methicillin-resistant (MRSA) associated with bloodstream infection, England, 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2013

article

Purpura fulminans in a child secondary to Panton-Valentine leukocidin-producing Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 01 October 2007

Putative link between Staphylococcus aureus bacteriophage serotype and community association ⬇️

scientific article published on June 4, 2012

Rapid PCR-based detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae DNA in cerebrospinal fluid.

scientific article published on October 1999

Rapid detection and quantification of CMV DNA in urine using LightCycler™-based real-time PCR ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2002

Rapid detection of Panton-Valentine leukocidin in Staphylococcus aureus cultures by use of a lateral flow assay based on monoclonal antibodies

scientific article published on 21 November 2012

Rapid detection of methicillin-resistant staphylococci by multiplex PCR

scientific article published on 01 September 1999

Rapid detection, differentiation and typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus harbouring either mecA or the new mecA homologue mecALGA251

scientific article published on 01 April 2012

Rapid identification of Mycobacterium bovis BCG by the detection of the RD1 deletion using a multiplex PCR technique

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Rapid real-time PCR for determination of penicillin susceptibility in pneumococcal meningitis, including culture-negative cases

scientific article

Re-emergence of early pandemic Staphylococcus aureus as a community-acquired meticillin-resistant clone.

scientific article

Re-emergence of methicillin susceptibility in a resistant lineage of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 20 January 2017

Risk factors for fatality in Panton-Valentine leukocidin-producing Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia cases, England, 2012-2013.

scientific article published on 14 March 2014

Robust Prediction of Resistance to Trimethoprim in Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article published on 4 January 2018

Severe Disseminated Infection with Emerging Lineage of Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus

scholarly article by Paul Jewell et al published January 2019 in Emerging Infectious Diseases

Severe invasive Panton-Valentine Leucocidin positive Staphylococcus aureus infections in children in London, UK.

scientific article published on 23 May 2009

Single dose ciprofloxacin to treat women with gonorrhoea

scientific article published on April 1989

Staff-to-patient transmission of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: do bacterial factors play a role? ⬇️

scientific article published on 02 August 2011

Staphylococcus aureus colonization and acquisition of skin and soft tissue infection among Royal Marines recruits: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 26 July 2019

Staphylococcus aureus isolates carrying Panton-Valentine leucocidin genes in England and Wales: frequency, characterization, and association with clinical disease

scientific article

Sterility of incontinence pads and sheets.

scientific article published in July 1987

Successful control of nosocomial transmission of the USA300 clone of community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a UK paediatric burns centre ⬇️

scientific article published on May 24, 2013

Survey, characterization and susceptibility to fusidic acid of Staphylococcus aureus in the Carmarthen area

scientific article

The 'Oxford Staphylococcus': a note of caution

scientific article published on 30 May 2006

Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin 1 Evaluation and Antibiotic Impact in a Transgenic Model of Staphylococcal Soft Tissue Infection

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

Tracking Staphylococcus aureus in the intensive care unit using whole-genome sequencing

scientific article published on 27 April 2019

Trichomonal vaginitis refractory to conventional treatment

scientific article

Trichomonal vaginitis refractory to treatment: case report.

scientific article

Tuberculosis transmitted through transplantation

scientific article published on 01 November 2001

Use of Vitek 2 antimicrobial susceptibility profile to identify mecC in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 29 May 2013

Use of mastalex to detect methicillin resistance in coagulase-negative staphylococci

scientific article published in November 2000

Utility of a newly developed Mueller-Hinton E agar for the detection of MRSA carrying the novel mecA homologue mecC

scientific article published on 23 December 2014

Vancomycin MIC as a predictor of outcome in MRSA bacteraemia in the UK context.

scientific article

Variable performance of four commercial chromogenic media for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates harbouring mecC.

scientific article published on 23 May 2017

Whole-Genome Sequencing Reveals the Contribution of Long-Term Carriers in Staphylococcus aureus Outbreak Investigation.

scientific article

Whole-genome sequencing in hierarchy with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: the utility of this approach to establish possible sources of MRSA cross-transmission.

scientific article published on 13 January 2015

Wide geographical dissemination of the multiresistant Staphylococcus capitis NRCS-A clone in neonatal intensive-care units.

scientific article published on 21 September 2015

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