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Staphylococcus aureus is one of the major causes of bloodstream infections. The aim of our study was to characterize methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates from blood of patients hospitalized in the Czech Republic between 2016 and 2018. All MRSA strains were tested for antibiotic susceptibility, analyzed by spa typing and clustered using a Based Upon Repeat Pattern (BURP) algorithm. The representative isolates of the four most common spa types and representative isolates of all spa clonal complexes were further typed by multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCC mec ) typing. The majority of MRSA strains were resistant to ciprofloxacin (94%), erythromycin (95.5%) and clindamycin (95.6%). Among the 618 strains analyzed, 52 different spa types were detected. BURP analysis divided them into six different clusters. The most common spa types were t003, t586, t014 and t002, all belonging to the CC5 (clonal complex). CC5 was the most abundant MLST CC of our study, comprising of 91.7% (n = 565) of spa- typeable isolates. Other CCs present in our study were CC398, CC22, CC8, CC45 and CC97. To our knowledge, this is the biggest nationwide study aimed at typing MRSA blood isolates from the Czech Republic.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the presence of pilus islet 1 (PI-1) and to determine its clade type in pneumococcal isolates with reduced susceptibility to penicillin (penicillin non-susceptible pneumococci - PNSP) and/or resistant to macrolides isolated prior to and after the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) in the Czech Republic., Methods: Clinical isolates of serotypes 9V (n = 68) and 19A (n = 89) were examined. Isolates were characterised by multilocus sequence typing (MLST). The presence of PI-1 was determined by screening for the sortase B, C, and D genes located within PI-1. In the presence of PI-1 pilus, clade types were classified by PCR., Results: In the pre-PCV period (2000-2007), the prevalence of PNSP was 3.9% and 2.7% of isolates were resistant to erythromycin. During 2012-2015 (post-PCV period), the rates of PNSP remained stable (3.6%), but resistance to erythromycin increased to 8.3%. While in 2000-2007, resistance to antibiotics was associated mainly with serotype 9V, in 2012-2015, it was replaced by serotype 19A. PI-1 positive isolates were seen in both serotypes. All isolates (68) of serotype 9V belonged to the Spain 9V -3 (CC156) clone and carried PI-1 of clade type I while 96.5% (56/58) of isolates of 19A serotype belonged to the Netherlands 15B -37 (CC199) clone and carried PI-1 of clade type II., Conclusions: Both major antibiotic resistant clones carried PI-1, although they differ in the clade type. Thus the role of PI-1 should be evaluated in further studies and potentially considered in the spread of antibiotic resistant clones., (Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier B.V.)

The aim of this study was to trace the dynamic changes of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) lineages in the local hospital in both the national and international context. We describe genotypic and phenotypic characterization of 62 non-duplicate MRSA isolates collected during 2010-2016 at University Hospital in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. The isolates were characterized by multilocus sequence typing (MLST), spa typing, and staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec typing (SCCmec typing). Eight different genotypes were described; ST225-t003-II (32/62, 52%), ST5-t002-II (13/62, 22%), and ST225-t014-II (12/62, 21%) were constantly detected over the 7-year follow-up period. The genotypes ST225-t151-II, ST225-t1282-II, ST225-t1623-II, ST78-t2832-II, and ST225-t8799-II occurred only once in the period reported. The majority of the strains, represented by ST225, belonged to clonal complex 5 (CC5).

Background: This authors team has been dealing with the Hodgkin disease problems since 1971. The MORHO study started at eight working places in 1978 according to unified diagnostic and medical protocol., Patients and Methods: 370 patients were treated. The treatment consisted in the combination of radiation and chemotherapy COPP and since 1988 in alternance of COPP and ABVD. Therapy was modificated with accordance to clinical stages and patient's histological type and age. Treatment of the patients over 50 was reduced in decades of one chemotherapy cycle less., Results: Results from the clinical study are--patients with the stage IIA, IIB and IIIA survive 30 years in 59.29%, 57.86% and 60.72%. Patients diagnosed as stage IIIB survive after 30 years 36.78%, while patients in stages IVA and IVB survived 10 years 24.51% and 23.32% and 20 years 8.61% in stage IVB. Women survived longer than men. Histological types had no influence to the lenght of survival. The total number of relapses in the group was 55. There were 39 men and 16 women from that. 64% was in stage III and IV and in 73% mediastinal nodules were affected. 42% of relapses was till 1 year after the treatment. After the treatment 75 children were born to the patients from the group. 60 children from that were born to the women under treatment., Conclusion: The success of therapy of Hodgkin's disease according to protocol created by expert group of study MORHO is comparable with results of similar studies in the world. The most important contribution of this study was unification of treatment protocol in Czechoslovakia. This study changed the formerly paliative therapy to real curative treatment.