Prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in patients attended at a General Dermatology Ambulatory in Manaus, Amazon State, Brazil
Hospital or community acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) have been described as an important public health problem, becausetheir resistance to beta-lactam and others antibiotics like macrolides, lincosamides,clindamycin, aminoglycosides and sulfonamides. In this study we iden...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2009 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) |
| Repositorio: | Revista de patologia tropical (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistas.ufg.br:article/6605 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ufg.br/iptsp/article/view/6605 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Staphylococcus aureus Oxacillin Infectious diseases. MRSA Oxacilina Doenças infecciosas. Doenças Infecciosas e Parasitárias |
| Sumario: | Hospital or community acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) have been described as an important public health problem, becausetheir resistance to beta-lactam and others antibiotics like macrolides, lincosamides,clindamycin, aminoglycosides and sulfonamides. In this study we identified MRSAprevalence at the Foundation of Tropical Dermatology and Venereology Alfredo daMatta in Manaus, Brazil. The data were obtained from the culture and susceptibilitytests register book, at the clinical bacteriology laboratory, between September 1998and October 2007. In 1,500 patients, 783 (52.2%) female and 717 (47.8%) male,1,494 tests were processed. 239 S. aureus were isolated and 232 were submittedto the susceptibility test, where 44,0% (102/232) presented oxacillin resistancewith 15.5% of MRSA prevalence. Oxacillin/methicillin resistance makes generalantibiotic therapy more complicated. The concern with the rates of prevalence orincidence of infections caused by MSRA are justified by the eventual failure of theinfectious process therapy, most of it complicated by potential elevated morbidityand mortality in adults as well as in children. Besides actions of control andmonitoring to minimize the risk of infections or colonization in health professionalsor patients, research is also necessary to characterize genotypically the hospital orcommunity origin of these microorganisms. |
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