USA300 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Cuba

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Andreas Voss¹  Jacques F Meis¹  Dayneris Menéndez Velázquez⁴  Corné H Klaassen¹  Fidel Espinosa²  Gilda Toraño Peraza⁴  Joost Hopman³ 

[1]Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

[2]Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital, Department of Microbiology, Havana, Cuba

[3]Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

[4]Pedro Kourí Institute, Department of Bacteriology-Mycology, Havana, Cuba

关键词: Low-resource setting;    Hospital-associated-infection;    Infection control;    Caribbean;    Cuba;    MRSA;   

Others  :  791394
DOI  :  10.1186/2047-2994-1-2

 received in 2011-10-05, accepted in 2012-01-26,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is an increasing problem in the Caribbean. We investigated the molecular epidemiology of MRSA isolates on Cuba.

Findings

The predominant clone was of the spa type t149, followed by community-associated MRSA USA300.

Conclusions

We report the first molecular typing results of MRSA isolates from Cuba.

【 授权许可】

   
2011 Hopman et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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