Epidemiological typing of MRSA isolates from blood cultures taken in Irish hospitals participating in the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (1999-2003)

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases : Official Publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology
Angela S RossneyBrian O'Connell

Abstract

Between 1999 and 2003, meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates recovered from blood cultures in Irish hospitals that participate in the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System were investigated by epidemiological typing using antibiogram-resistogram (AR) typing, biotyping, and DNA macrorestriction digestion using SmaI followed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). PFGE patterns were assigned five-digit pulsed-field type (PFT) numbers, and PFTs of apparently related patterns were abbreviated to two-digit PFT groups (PFGs). AR and PFGE typing results were combined to produce AR-PFG types. Representative isolates of each AR-PFG type recovered in 2002 were typed by multilocus sequence typing and staphylococcal cassette chromosome (SCC) mec analysis. Isolates from 1999 and 2000 were also typed by phage typing. The extent to which epidemiological types of MRSA from blood cultures could be extrapolated to the total MRSA population was investigated by comparing results obtained with isolates from the total MRSA population versus those obtained with blood cultures during three study periods. Over the 5 years from 1999 to 2003, 1,580 blood culture isolates from 1,495 patients were analysed. Typeabil...Continue Reading

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