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Nasal carriage of a single clone of community-acquired methicillin-resistant S taphylococcus aureus among kindergarten attendees in northern Taiwan by Wen-Tsung Lo; Wei-Jen Lin; Min-Hua Tseng; Jang-Jih Lu; Shih-Yi Lee; Mong-Ling Chu; Chih-Chien Wang is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background: To evaluate the prevalence and microbiological characterization of community-acquired (CA) methicillin-resistant __Staphylococcus aureus__ (MRSA) nasal carriage in a kindergarten. ## Methods: Point prevalence study. Nasal swabs were collected from healthy children younger than 7 years of age who were attending a kindergarten in Taipei, Taiwan. A parent questionnaire regarding MRSA risk factors was administered simultaneously. All CA-MRSA colonization isolates were archived for subsequent antimicrobial susceptibility and molecular typing. ## Results: Of the 68 children who participated in the study, 17 (25%) had __S. aureus__ isolated from nasal swabs. Nine (13.2%) of the 68 children had CA-MRSA carriage, and none of them had any identified risk factors. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing revealed all of the 9 CA-MRSA colonization isolates had uniformly high resistance (100%) to both clindamycin and erythromycin, the macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin-constitutive phenotype and the __ermB__ gene. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis revealed 8 (88.9%) of 9 CA-MRSA colonization isolates were genetically related and multilocus sequence typing revealed all isolates had se
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- Author
- Wen-Tsung Lo; Wei-Jen Lin; Min-Hua Tseng; Jang-Jih Lu; Shih-Yi Lee; Mong-Ling Chu; Chih-Chien Wang
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2001-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1471-2334)
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)