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KMID : 0364820110470040381
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Korean Journal of Microbiology
2011 Volume.47 No. 4 p.381 ~ p.385
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Comparison Between Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test and mecA PCR Method for Reading of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
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Kim Su-Jung
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Abstract
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of major pathogen causing hospital infection and several diseases such as purulent infection, bacteremia. The isolation ratio of MRSA is gradually increased up to 80% in the hospital, which makes a limitation for treatment of antibiotics because the isolated MRSA show resistance to methicillin as well as other antibiotics. This study proposes that mecA detecting methods which are not commonly used because of cost in the hospital is a more accurate method than Susceptibility Testing to detect a MRSA. We compared Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 29213 as a negative control and 20 MRSA strains isolated from patients by these two methods. We amplified mecA gene by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and confirmed the PCR products by sequencing. All of the MRSA showed oxacillin and cefoxitin resistance whereas 85% (16/19) of the strains had mecA wildtype. These results suggest that some of the MRSA are mecA mutants therefore mecA genotyping reinforces the MRSA detection by
antibiotic susceptibility test.
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KEYWORD
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mecA, antimicrobial susceptibility, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
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