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ArticleInfection and drug resistance2015

Validation of a phage-open reading frame typing kit for rapid identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) transmission in a tertiary hospital.

Hiroki Takahashi, Masafumi Seki, Norihisa Yamamoto, Shigeto Hamaguchi, Masahiro Ojima, Tomoya Hirose, Kazuhisa Yoshiya, Masahiro Toyokawa, Isao Nishi, Hiroshi Ogura and 2 more

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Article in Infection and drug resistance, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Hiroki TakahashiDepartment of Traumatology and Acute Critical Medicine, Osaka University Hospital, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Masafumi SekiDivision of Infection Control and Prevention, Osaka University Hospital, Suita, Osaka, Japan ; Division of Infection Control and Prevention, Tohoku Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Sendai, Japan.
Norihisa YamamotoDivision of Infection Control and Prevention, Osaka University Hospital, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Shigeto HamaguchiDivision of Infection Control and Prevention, Osaka University Hospital, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Masahiro OjimaDepartment of Traumatology and Acute Critical Medicine, Osaka University Hospital, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Tomoya HiroseDepartment of Traumatology and Acute Critical Medicine, Osaka University Hospital, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Kazuhisa YoshiyaDepartment of Traumatology and Acute Critical Medicine, Osaka University Hospital, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Masahiro ToyokawaLaboratory for Clinical Investigation, Osaka University Hospital, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Isao NishiLaboratory for Clinical Investigation, Osaka University Hospital, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Hiroshi OguraDepartment of Traumatology and Acute Critical Medicine, Osaka University Hospital, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Takeshi ShimazuDepartment of Traumatology and Acute Critical Medicine, Osaka University Hospital, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Kazunori TomonoDivision of Infection Control and Prevention, Osaka University Hospital, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Osaka University Hospital · JP

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Abstract

Surveillance is very important to prevent the nosocomial spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and infection sources and routes have historically been identified using molecular and epidemiological genotyping with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. However, phage-open reading frame typing (POT) has recently been developed. Here, we investigated whether POT would be useful to survey MRSA outbreaks and transmission. We therefore applied POT to 91 MRSA isolates detected in cultures from inpatients at our hospital between May and October 2014. Among the 91 isolates, 12 POT types comprising 38 isolated MRSA strains were considered as overlapping. Five of them were detected in different wards, whereas the remaining seven were found in the same ward, including the emergency department. Three of seven POT number 93-155-111 strains were detected in the surgical ward, and all of four POT number 93-157-61 strains were detected in the cardiosurgical ward. These data suggested that transmission of the MRSA strains with the same POT-types from the same wards was nosocomial, and that POT accurately and rapidly identified MRSA strains, which allowed effective control of infection and transmission.

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active surveillanceMRSAnosocomial transmissionPOT

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