Epidemiology of drug resistance: The case of Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci infections

Epidemiology of drug resistance: The case of Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci infections

Objective. To study the activity of several antibiotics against Staphylococcus spp. Material and Methods. The study included 1209 strains of Staphylococcus spp. from two institutions; Instituto Nacional de Pediatría (National Institute of Pediatrics) and Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez (Mexico City Children's Hospital). Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations of all antibiotics were determined by the agar macrodilution technique and standard methods from the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards. Results. Resistance of S. aureus was 14.2% and that of coagulase-negative staphylococci was 53.4%. The activity of different antibiotics is presented in detail. Conclusions. Surveillance of strains resistant to methicillin is necessary.

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Main Authors: Calderón-Jaimes,Ernesto, Espinosa de los Monteros,Luz E, Avila-Beltrán,Renata
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Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública 2002
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spelling oai:scielo:S0036-363420020002000042006-08-09Epidemiology of drug resistance: The case of Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci infectionsCalderón-Jaimes,ErnestoEspinosa de los Monteros,Luz EAvila-Beltrán,Renata drug resistance microbial Staphylococcus aureus coagulase-negative Staphylococcus antimicrobial susceptibility methicillin-resistant staphylococci Mexico Objective. To study the activity of several antibiotics against Staphylococcus spp. Material and Methods. The study included 1209 strains of Staphylococcus spp. from two institutions; Instituto Nacional de Pediatría (National Institute of Pediatrics) and Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez (Mexico City Children's Hospital). Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations of all antibiotics were determined by the agar macrodilution technique and standard methods from the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards. Results. Resistance of S. aureus was 14.2% and that of coagulase-negative staphylococci was 53.4%. The activity of different antibiotics is presented in detail. Conclusions. Surveillance of strains resistant to methicillin is necessary.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessInstituto Nacional de Salud PúblicaSalud Pública de México v.44 n.2 20022002-04-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articletext/htmlhttp://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-36342002000200004en
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Avila-Beltrán,Renata
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Espinosa de los Monteros,Luz E
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Epidemiology of drug resistance: The case of Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci infections
author_facet Calderón-Jaimes,Ernesto
Espinosa de los Monteros,Luz E
Avila-Beltrán,Renata
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title Epidemiology of drug resistance: The case of Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci infections
title_short Epidemiology of drug resistance: The case of Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci infections
title_full Epidemiology of drug resistance: The case of Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci infections
title_fullStr Epidemiology of drug resistance: The case of Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci infections
title_full_unstemmed Epidemiology of drug resistance: The case of Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci infections
title_sort epidemiology of drug resistance: the case of staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci infections
description Objective. To study the activity of several antibiotics against Staphylococcus spp. Material and Methods. The study included 1209 strains of Staphylococcus spp. from two institutions; Instituto Nacional de Pediatría (National Institute of Pediatrics) and Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez (Mexico City Children's Hospital). Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations of all antibiotics were determined by the agar macrodilution technique and standard methods from the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards. Results. Resistance of S. aureus was 14.2% and that of coagulase-negative staphylococci was 53.4%. The activity of different antibiotics is presented in detail. Conclusions. Surveillance of strains resistant to methicillin is necessary.
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