Maria Kapi

TL;DR: Multiple methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones carrying type IV staphylitiscal cassette chromosome mec were identified in the community-acquired MRSA strains of both the United States and Australia.

TL;DR: This review focuses on recent findings on the acquisition of multiple antibiotic resistance in the hospital and the trend towards methicillin-resistant S. aureus as a community pathogen.

TL;DR: HVISA strains were found in India, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, but neither vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus nor vancomYcin-resistant S.Aureus isolates were found among MRSA isolates from Asian countries in this survey.

TL;DR: It is concluded that heteroresistance to vancomycin occurs in S. capitis and might be the cause of therapeutic failures in NICUs, and heteroresistant strains can become endemic in such units.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that in addition to the two regulator mutations, a third mutation found in the Mu50 rpoB gene, encoding the RNA polymerase β subunit, was required for Mu3 to achieve the level of vancomycin resistance of Mu50.