Emergence of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type IV methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) type IV methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains were identified in 8 (19.5%) of 41 consecutive patients with MRSA ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in this retrospective, observational study. There were no significant differences in VAP severity and crude mortality rates between patients with SCCmec type II strains and patients with SCCmec type IV strains.
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Division of Infectious Diseases and Environmental Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA. dionissios.neofytos@mail.tju.edu
Kuhn
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Shen
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Hua Zhu
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Jungkind
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Flomenberg
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000235:genetics / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016106:Methicillin Resistance / Q000235:genetics*; D008875:Middle Aged; D015143:Philadelphia / Q000453:epidemiology; D053717:Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated / Q000235:genetics / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000401:mortality; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000235:genetics* / Q000401:mortality; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics*