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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2007, p. 3431-3433, Vol. 45, No. 10
0095-1137/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.00902-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

USA300 Genotype Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a Cause of Surgical Site Infections{triangledown}

Mukesh Patel,1* Ritu A. Kumar,1,{dagger} Alan M. Stamm,1 Craig J. Hoesley,1 Stephen A. Moser,2 and Ken B. Waites2

Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine,1 Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama2

Received 30 April 2007/ Returned for modification 11 June 2007/ Accepted 24 July 2007

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) strains are increasingly recovered from nosocomial settings. We conducted a retrospective study of surgical site infections (SSI) during 2004 and 2005 to determine the prevalence of CA-MRSA; 57% of MRSA strains tested belonged to the USA300 genotype. CA-MRSA has become a prominent cause of SSI at our institution.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: University of Alabama at Birmingham, THT 229, 1530 3rd Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35294-0006. Phone: (205) 934-5191. Fax: (205) 934-5155. E-mail: mukesh{at}uab.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 1 August 2007.

{dagger} Present address: Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2007, p. 3431-3433, Vol. 45, No. 10
0095-1137/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.00902-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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