title: [Biological characteristics of Staphylococci circulating in hospitals in Nizhniĭ Novgorod].
abstract: The study of 513 clinical isolates of staphylococci revealed that 8.4% of them were methicillin-resistant, their proportion in the isolates obtained from hospital patients being significantly higher than in the isolates obtained from patients in outpatient clinics (11.8% compared with 1.48%). Most of these isolates were coagulase-hegative staphylococci. The isolates obtained from urine, blood, discharge of the middle ear were in all cases represented by coagulase-negative staphylococci. Methicillin-resistant variants of S. aureus occurred mainly in discharge of surgical wounds and in sputum.
authors.affiliation: State Medical Academy, Clinical Infectious Hospital No. 2, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
authors.forename: O N
authors.initials: ON
authors.lastname: Shprykova
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Satunina
authors.forename: O A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Speranskaia
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Zhdakova
mesh_terms: D003030:Coagulase / Q000378:metabolism; D006786:Hospitals, Urban; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D016106:Methicillin Resistance; D010045:Outpatients; D012426:Russia; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000145:classification* / Q000201:enzymology / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D003030:Coagulase