Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus in Bangalore, India: emergence of the ST217 clone and high rate of resistance to erythromycin and ciprofloxacin in the community

Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus in Bangalore, India: emergence of the ST217 clone and high rate of resistance to erythromycin and ciprofloxacin in the community

This study aimed to determine the antibiotic susceptibility pattern of Staphylococcus aureus (SA) and the circulating clones in Bangalore, India. Susceptibility testing was performed for all cases of SA infections in a tertiary-care hospital. Panton-Valentine leucocidin (PVL) encoding genes were det...

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Main Authors: C. Bouchiat, N. El-Zeenni, B. Chakrakodi, S. Nagaraj, G. Arakere, J. Etienne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-09-01
Series:New Microbes and New Infections
Subjects:
Antibiotic resistance
community-acquired infection
emergence
India
ST217
ST772
Staphylococcus aureus
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2052297515000426

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