ArticleAfrican health sciences2019
Detection and phenotypic characterization of methicillin-resistant
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- A meta-analysis on the prevalence of resistance of Staphylococcus aureus to different antibiotics in Nigeria.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2023Pooled it
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization and associated factors in clinical isolates among patients attending a tertiary medical centre in Nigeria.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Mutation-Based Antibiotic Resistance Mechanism in Methicillin-ResistantPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Infections: HIV and related-diseases, anti-microbial resistance and neglected tropical diseases.African health sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe objective of this study was to isolate and phenotypically characterize methicillin-resistant
methodsA total of 709 clinical (303) and community samples (406) samples were obtained for this study. MRSA isolates were detected using Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method with the inclusion of 1 µg oxacillin and cefoxitin antibiotic disc. The isolates were screened for the β-lactamase production using nitrocefin sticks.
resultsA total of 44 MRSA isolates were obtained from the samples with prevalence frequency of 22.6 % and 20.8 % from clinical and community samples respectively. The clinical isolates were completely resistant (100 %) to ceftazidime, tetracycline and penicillin. Gentamicin and ciprofloxacin were the most effective antibiotics against the clinical and community isolates respectively with a susceptibility frequency of 63.2 % and 80 %. Exactly 38.1 % and 24.2 % of the clinical and community
conclusionThis present findings of multi-drug resistance MRSA is very worrisome as it further highlights the pressing need to keep a strict watch on MRSA emerging from this study area.
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