Drug Resistance

Research from A. Vainio and co-authors in the area of drug resistance published

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, September 2nd, 2008

"In Finland, the incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains has increased ten fold within the last decade. In order to follow the changing epidemiology of MRSA, accurate typing of S. aureus strains is important," scientists writing in the European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases report.

"The purpose of this study was to reanalyse 44 previously recognised Finnish epidemic MRSA strains (EMRSA) by several molecular typing methods and to revise their nomenclature. The 44 EMRSA strains were grouped into 26 pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) clusters, 20 multi locus sequence typing (MLST) sequence types (ST)...

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Source: TB and Outbreaks Week (2008-09-02)

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