ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2018
Topical Antibiotic Use Coselects for the Carriage of Mobile Genetic Elements Conferring Resistance to Unrelated Antimicrobials in Staphylococcus aureus.
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- Staphylococcal diversity in atopic dermatitis from an individual to a global scale.Cell host & microbe · 2023Article
- From top to bottom: Staphylococci in atopic dermatitis.Cell host & microbe · 2023Article
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- Combining MALDI-TOF and genomics in the study of methicillin resistant and multidrug resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius in New Zealand.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Genomic Analysis of Multiresistant Staphylococcus capitis Associated with Neonatal Sepsis.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2018Article
- Conjugative Transfer of a Novel Staphylococcal Plasmid Encoding the Biocide Resistance Gene,Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Topical antibiotics, such as mupirocin and fusidic acid, are commonly used in the prevention and treatment of skin infections, particularly those caused by staphylococci. However, the widespread use of these agents is associated with increased resistance to these agents, potentially limiting their efficacy. Of particular concern is the observation that resistance to topical antibiotics is often associated with multidrug resistance, suggesting that topical antibiotics may play a role in the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains. New Zealand (NZ) has some of the highest globally recorded rates of topical antibiotic usage and resistance. Using a combination of Pacific Biosciences single-molecule real-time (SMRT) whole-genome sequencing, Illumina short-read sequencing, and Bayesian phylogenomic modeling on 118 new multilocus sequence type 1 (ST1) community
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