1. Population Structure of Staphylococcus aureusStrains Isolated from Intensive Care Unit Patients in The Netherlands over an 11-Year Period (1996 to 2006)
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Rijnders, M. I. A., Deurenberg, R. H., Boumans, M. L. L., Hoogkamp-Korstanje, J. A. A., Beisser, P. S., and Stobberingh, E. E.
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ABSTRACTThe genetic background and the presence of several virulence factors of Staphylococcus aureusisolates from intensive care unit (ICU) patients from 14 hospitals in The Netherlands isolated from 1996 until 2006 were investigated. In total, 936 methicillin-susceptible S. aureus(MSSA) and 7 methicillin-resistant S. aureus(MRSA) isolates were collected. The genetic background was determined by spatyping and multilocus sequence typing (MLST). The virulence determinants Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL), toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1), and collagen adhesion (CNA) were detected with real-time PCR assays. On the MRSA isolates, mobile resistance staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec(SCCmec) typing was performed. Among the MSSA isolates, 313 different spatypes were observed. A genetic background common to MRSA clones, e.g., MLST clonal complex 1 (CC1), CC5, CC8, CC22, CC30, and CC45, was observed among 62% of the isolates. The remaining isolates were associated with MSSA-related MLST CCs. MLST CC1, CC25, and CC30 were continuously present, and other MLST CCs fluctuated over time. Two percent of the MSSA isolates harbored PVL, 21% had TSST-1, and 46% were positive for CNA. There were no changes in the prevalence of the virulence factors over time. Four MRSA isolates were typed as ST8-MRSA-IV (where ST is the MLST sequence type and IV is the SCCmectype), two were ST5-MRSA-II, and one was ST228-MRSA-I. All MRSA isolates were PVL, CNA, and TSST-1 negative except for the two ST5-MRSA-II isolates, which were TSST-1 positive. No changes in the S. aureusgenetic background and the prevalence of the virulence factors PVL, CNA, and TSST-1 were observed in ICU patients in The Netherlands over time.
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- 2009
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