Multiple methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clones carrying type IV
staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec were identified in the community-acquired MRSA strains …

Objective: To document the types of, and mortality from, Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia
in Australia and New Zealand, and determine factors associated with mortality. Design and …

(See the editorial commentary by Holland and Fowler Jr, on pages 329–31 .) Background.
There are concerns about reduced efficacy of vancomycin in patients with Staphylococcus …

Alcohol-based disinfectants and particularly hand rubs are a key way to control hospital
infections worldwide. Such disinfectants restrict transmission of pathogens, such as multidrug-…

Enterococcus faecium is a robust opportunistic pathogen that is most commonly found as a
commensal of the human and animal gut but can also survive in the environment. Since the …

Nosocomial outbreaks of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) are thought
to occur by transmission of VREfm between patients, predicting that infection control …

Objective: To describe antimicrobial resistance and molecular epidemiology of methicillin‐resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolated in community settings in Australia. Design …

A series of epidemics of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA)
have occurred in Australia, starting in Western Australia in the early 1990s, in …

Increasing reports of the appearance of novel nonmultiresistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus MRSA (MRSA) strains in the community and of the spread of hospital MRSA …

The horizontal gene transfer facilitated by mobile genetic elements impacts almost all areas
of bacterial evolution, including the accretion and dissemination of antimicrobial-resistance …