title: Immunoblot typing of oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates.
abstract: Recently an immunoblotting system was developed for typing oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Oxacillin-resistant S. aureus (ORSA) isolates recovered during a 4-month period from premature new-borns division of University Hospital of Pavia, with several antimicrobial susceptibility patterns, were evaluated with this typing scheme. Immunoblotting was found to be a useful method with good reproducibility and the ORSA strains isolated at our institution were differentiated in two major groups of organisms clinically and epidemiologically related. Furthermore immunoblot typing showed same specific correlations with susceptibility patterns of ORSA isolates studied.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Microbiologia, Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pagani
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Debiaggi
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Garbagnoli
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Romero
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D015151:Immunoblotting; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D010068:Oxacillin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010403:Penicillin Resistance; D010406:Penicillins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000276:immunology; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000472:pathogenicity*
chemical_list: D010406:Penicillins; D010068:Oxacillin