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A Prescription for Resistance: Management of Staphylococcal Skin Abscesses by General Practitioners in Australia

scientific article published on 06 June 2016

A change in the molecular epidemiology of vancomycin resistant enterococci in Western Australia

scientific article published on January 2014

A clonal complex 12 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain, West Australian MRSA-59, harbors a novel pseudo-SCCmec element

scientific article

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 multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis clone (ST2) is an ongoing cause of hospital-acquired infection in a Western Australian hospital

scientific article

A prospective, randomized, controlled trial comparing transparent polyurethane and hydrocolloid dressings for central venous catheters

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

A rapid (20 h) solid screening medium for detecting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

article

Activity of ceftaroline against community associated and healthcare associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on January 2014

Adaptive change inferred from genomic population analysis of the ST93 epidemic clone of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on February 2014

Alterations in phage-typing patterns in vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published in August 2003

Antibiotic Choice May Not Explain Poorer Outcomes in Patients With Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia and High Vancomycin Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations

article

Antibiotic susceptibility and molecular epidemiology of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: An international survey

scientific article published on 3 September 2013

Antimicrobial resistance: Not community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA)! A clinician's guide to community MRSA - its evolving antimicrobial resistance and implications for therapy

scientific article published on January 2011

Antimicrobial susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus and molecular epidemiology of meticillin-resistant S. aureus isolated from Australian hospital inpatients: Report from the Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance 2011 Staphylococcus aureus S

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Can interchangeability of lincosamides be assumed in clinical practice? Comparative MICs of clindamycin and lincomycin for Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus agalactiae and Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article published on 28 October 2013

Characterisation of Australian MRSA strains ST75- and ST883-MRSA-IV and analysis of their accessory gene regulator locus

scientific article (publication date: 17 November 2010)

Characterization of meticillin-resistant and meticillin-susceptible isolates of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius from cases of canine pyoderma in Australia.

scientific article published on 3 July 2014

Clinical and laboratory features of invasive community-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection: a prospective case-control study

scientific article

Clinical and molecular epidemiology of community-onset invasive Staphylococcus aureus infection in New Zealand children

scientific article

Clinical and molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in New Zealand: rapid emergence of sequence type 5 (ST5)-SCCmec-IV as the dominant community-associated MRSA clone

scientific article

Clonal Expansion of New Penicillin-Resistant Clade of Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup W Clonal Complex 11, Australia.

scientific article

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia: a clinical audit

scientific article published on August 2011

Community-acquired pneumonia due to pandemic A(H1N1)2009 influenzavirus and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus co-infection.

scientific article

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Australia

scientific article published on 14 March 2008

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission in households of infected cases: a pooled analysis of primary data from three studies across international settings

scientific article

Community-associated versus healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: a 10-year retrospective review.

scientific article published on 11 October 2008

Community-onset Staphylococcus aureus infections presenting to general practices in South-eastern Australia.

scientific article published on 18 July 2013

Comparative genomics and DNA array-based genotyping of pandemic Staphylococcus aureus strains encoding Panton-Valentine leukocidin.

scientific article

Comparison of a multiplexed MassARRAY system with real-time allele-specific PCR technology for genotyping of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ⬇️

scientific article published on May 20, 2011

Complete Genome Sequence of Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Sequence Type 1, SCC IV[2B], Isolated in the 1990s from Northern Western Australia ⬇️

Controlling a multicenter outbreak involving the New York/Japan methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone.

scientific article

Convergent adaptation in the dominant global hospital clone ST239 of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article

Cousins, siblings, or copies: the genomics of recurrent Staphylococcus aureus infections in chronic rhinosinusitis

scientific article published on October 2014

Detection of Helicobacter pylori antigen in faeces by enzyme immunoassay

article

Development and usage of protein microarrays for the quantitative measurement of Panton-Valentine leukocidin

scientific article published on 3 December 2013

Differentiation of clonal complex 59 community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Western Australia

scientific article published on 8 March 2010

Differing epidemiology of two major healthcare-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones.

scientific article published on 21 November 2015

Dissemination of new methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in the community

scientific article

Distribution of SCCmec-associated phenol-soluble modulin in staphylococci

scientific article

Diversity among community isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Australia.

scientific article published on July 2004

Emergence and molecular characterization of clonal complex 398 (CC398) methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in New Zealand.

scientific article published on 22 December 2013

Emergence of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection in Queensland, Australia

scientific article

Epidemiological, clinical, outcome and antibiotic susceptibility differences between PVL positive and PVL negative Staphylococcus aureus infections in Western Australia: a case control study

scientific article

Epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of pathogens causing urinary tract infections in the Asia-Pacific region: Results from the Study for Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance Trends (SMART), 2010-2013.

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

Epidemiology and trends in the antibiotic susceptibilities of Gram-negative bacilli isolated from patients with intra-abdominal infections in the Asia-Pacific region, 2010-2013.

scientific article published on 20 April 2017

Eradication of a large outbreak of a single strain of vanB vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium at a major Australian teaching hospital

scientific article

Evaluation of the BD GeneOhm MRSA ACP Assay and the Cepheid GeneXpert MRSA Assay to detect genetically diverse CA-MRSA.

scientific article published in December 2013

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

Evolution and diversity of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a geographical region

scientific article

Evolution of multidrug resistance during Staphylococcus aureus infection involves mutation of the essential two component regulator WalKR

scientific article

Evolutionary origins of the emergent ST796 clone of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium.

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

Formal infectious diseases consultation is associated with decreased mortality in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia

scientific article published on 3 March 2012

Frequent emergence and limited geographic dispersal of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scholarly article

Genetic and molecular predictors of high vancomycin MIC in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia isolates.

scientific article

Genetic diversity among community methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains causing outpatient infections in Australia

scientific article published on October 2004

Genetic organization of mecA and mecA-regulatory genes in epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from Australia and England

scientific article published in December 2002

Genome sequencing and molecular characterisation of Staphylococcus aureus ST772-MRSA-V, "Bengal Bay Clone".

scientific article

Genomic insights into the emergence and spread of international clones of healthcare-, community- and livestock-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Blurring of the traditional definitions

scientific article

Genomic insights to control the emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci

scientific article published on 13 August 2013

Hyperexpression of α-hemolysin explains enhanced virulence of sequence type 93 community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Identification and Characterisation of Fosfomycin Resistance in Escherichia coli Urinary Tract Infection Isolates from Australia

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

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

Illness severity in community-onset invasive Staphylococcus aureus infection and the presence of virulence genes

scientific article published on 5 April 2012

Incidence, risk factors, and outcomes of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus infections in Auckland, New Zealand.

scientific article

Increased EMRSA-15 health-care worker colonization demonstrated in retrospective review of EMRSA hospital outbreaks

scientific article published on 03 March 2014

Increasing tolerance of hospital Enterococcus faecium to handwash alcohols

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Intrafamilial transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on October 2009

Isolation of mecC MRSA in Australia

scientific article

Knowing prior methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection or colonization status increases the empirical use of glycopeptides in MRSA bacteraemia and may decrease mortality.

scientific article

Low vancomycin MICs and fecal densities reduce the sensitivity of screening methods for vancomycin resistance in Enterococci

scientific article

Macrolide, lincosamide and streptogramin B resistance in a dominant clone of Australian community methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a population of horses in Australia

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Molecular Epidemiology of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Australian Veterinarians

scientific article published on 6 January 2016

Molecular characterization of endocarditis-associated Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 24 April 2013

Molecular epidemiology of enterococcal bacteremia in Australia

scientific article published on 03 January 2014

Molecular typing of methicillin-resistant staphylococci isolated from cats and dogs

scientific article published on 16 June 2006

Mycobacterium chimaera colonisation of heater-cooler units (HCU) in Western Australia, 2015: investigation of possible iatrogenic infection using whole genome sequencing

scientific article (publication date: 17 November 2016)

Non-multiresistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in Sydney, Australia: emergence of EMRSA-15, Oceania, Queensland and Western Australian MRSA strains

article

Origin-of-transfer sequences facilitate mobilisation of non-conjugative antimicrobial-resistance plasmids in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Outbreak of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection associated with acupuncture and joint injection

scientific article

Polyclonal emergence of vanA vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in Australia

scientific article published on 28 December 2016

Population dynamics of methicillin-susceptible and -resistant Staphylococcus aureus in remote communities.

scientific article published on 27 August 2009

Prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonisation in Tasmanian rural hospitals

Prevalence of nasal methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in healthcare workers in a Western Australian acute care hospital

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Preventing the introduction of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus into hospitals

scientific article published on 2 October 2014

Proteome analysis of highly immunoreactive proteins of Helicobacter pylori

scientific article

Rapid detection of H and R Panton-Valentine leukocidin isoforms in Staphylococcus aureus by high-resolution melting analysis

scientific article published on August 2010

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 identification of fungi by sequencing the ITS1 and ITS2 regions using an automated capillary electrophoresis system

scientific article published in October 2003

Reply to De Angelis et al

scientific article published on 31 May 2011

Reverse zoonotic transmission of community-associated MRSA ST1-IV to a dairy cow.

scientific article published on 11 May 2017

ST2249-MRSA-III: a second major recombinant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone causing healthcare infection in the 1970s

scientific article

Short duration therapy for Helicobacter pylori in Western Australia: the impact of metronidazole resistance ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 1998

Staphylococcus aureus 'Down Under': contemporary epidemiology of S. aureus in Australia, New Zealand, and the South West Pacific

scientific article

Staphylococcus aureus ST398 detected in pigs in Australia

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Staphylococcus aureus plasmids without mobilization genes are mobilized by a novel conjugative plasmid from community isolates.

scientific article published on 18 November 2014

Survey of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains from two hospitals in El Paso, Texas

scientific article published on June 2005

The dominant Australian community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone ST93-IV [2B] is highly virulent and genetically distinct

scientific article

The molecular epidemiology and evolution of the Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain USA300 in Western Australia.

scientific article

The molecular epidemiology of the highly virulent ST93 Australian community Staphylococcus aureus strain

scientific article

Transmission of highly virulent community-associated MRSA ST93 and livestock-associated MRSA ST398 between humans and pigs in Australia.

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

Type V staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec in community staphylococci from Australia.

scientific article

Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium sequence type 796 - rapid international dissemination of a new epidemic clone.

scientific article published on 22 March 2018

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