Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học Clinical Microbiology đề tài: A population-based study examining the emergence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 in New York City. | Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials BioMed Central Research Open Access A population-based study examining the emergence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 in New York City Simona Bratu David Landman Jyoti Gupta Manoj Trehan Monica Panwar and John Quale Address Division of Infectious Diseases State University of New York - Downstate Medical Center Brooklyn New York USA Email Simona Bratu - sbratu@ David Landman - dlandman@ Jyoti Gupta - jyotiahuja@ Manoj Trehan - manojtrehan@ Monica Panwar - mpanwar@ John Quale - jquale@ Corresponding author Published 30 November 2006 Received 18 September 2006 Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2006 5 29 doi 1476-071 1-5- Accepted 30 November 2006 29 This article is available from http content 5 1 29 2006 Bratu et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus CA-MRSA is a serious pathogen in several regions in the United States. It is unclear which populations are at high risk for the emergence of these strains. Methods All unique patient isolates of S. aureus were collected from hospitals in Brooklyn NY over a three-month period. Isolates of MRSA that were susceptible to clindamycin underwent SCCmec typing. Isolates with the SCCmec type IV characteristic of CA-MRSA strains underwent ribotyping. Demographic information involving the neighborhoods of Brooklyn was also gathered and correlated with the prevalence of CA-MRSA strains. Results Of 1316 isolates collected during the surveillance 217 were MRSA susceptible to clindamycin. A total of .
