Letícia Calixto Romero

TL;DR: Results from this study show high resistance rates of CoNS to antimicrobial agents, reflecting the necessity of using these drugs judiciously and controlling nosocomial dissemination of these pathogens.

TL;DR: Strains with the same evolutionary origin as other isolates, which might cause infections in humans and animals, are revealed, suggesting their ability to spread between these species.

TL;DR: In this paper, a broad approach to local epidemiological aspects in less studied regions, but nonetheless at latent risk of endemic spread that may reach global proportions, is necessary. But the authors focus on the identification of the ST398-MRSA-IV/V clone and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) in healthy individuals from the community.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the disk diffusion method and biofilm formation by the Congo Red Agar (CRA) method to detect and characterize S. aureus and MRSA strains from the nasal cavities of 63 healthcare working in primary health care units in Brazil.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the ability of RNA III inhibiting peptide (RIP) to inhibit biofilm formation in 10 strains isolated from clinical materials, including one S. aureus strain, two S. epidermidis, two Staphylococcus haemolyticus, and one isolate each of the following species: S. warneri, S. hominis, and S saprophyticus.