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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0906.030001
Personal Author:
Schwaber, Mitchell J. ; Wright, Sharon B. ; Carmeli, Yehuda ; Venkataraman, Lata ; DeGirolami, Paola C. ; ... More +
Schwaber, Mitchell J. ; Wright, Sharon B. ; Carmeli, Yehuda ; Venkataraman, Lata ; DeGirolami, Paola C. ; Gramatikova, Aneta ; Perl, Trish M. ; Sakoulas, George ; Gold, Howard S. Less -
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We conducted a retrospective study of the clinical aspects of bacteremia caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) with heterogeneously reduced susceptibility to vancomycin. Bloodstream MRSA isolates were screened for reduced susceptibility by using brain-heart infusion agar, including 4 mg/L vancomycin with and without 4% NaCl. Patients whose isolates exhibited growth (case-patients) were compared with those whose isolates did not (controls) for demographics, coexisting chronic conditions, hospital events, antibiotic exposures, and outcomes. Sixty-one (41%) of 149 isolates exhibited growth. Subclones from 46 (75%) of these had a higher MIC of vancomycin than did their parent isolates. No isolates met criteria for vancomycin heteroresistance. No differences in potential predictors or in outcomes were found between case-patients and controls. These data show that patients with vancomycin-susceptible MRSA bacteremia have similar baseline clinical features and outcomes whether or not their bacterial isolates exhibit growth on screening media containing vancomycin.
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Bacteremia Cohort Studies Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field Female Hospitalization Humans Male Methicillin Resistance Microbial Sensitivity Tests Research Retrospective Studies Staphylococcal Infections Vancomycin Vancomycin Resistance
Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 9(6):657-664.
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
T01/CCU111438/CC/ODCDC CDC HHS/United States
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
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