What is community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?

The Journal of Infectious Diseases
Michael Z DavidRobert S Daum

Abstract

A community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infection has been defined as an MRSA infection in a patient who lacks specific risk factors for healthcare exposure. We sought to determine whether the absence or presence of these risk factors still predicts the phenotypic or genotypic characteristics of MRSA strains. All clinical MRSA isolates were prospectively collected at the University of Chicago Hospitals from July 2004 through June 2005. Patients were interviewed and/or their medical records were reviewed. Isolates underwent genotyping and susceptibility testing. Data on patients and isolates were stratified in accordance with 8 frequently cited criteria for the identification of CA-MRSA and compared for concordance. Among 616 unique patients from whom MRSA isolates were recovered, 404 (65.6%) had risk factors for healthcare exposure. Of the 404 isolates recovered from these patients, 166 (41.1%) were clindamycin susceptible, 190 (47.0%) carried staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) type IV, 145 (35.9%) carried the Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes (PVL+), and 162 (40.1%) were identified as sequence type (ST) 8 by multilocus sequence typing (MLST), all of which are characteristics co...Continue Reading

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