Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (Jan 2013)

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  • Fernanda Sampaio Cavalcante,
  • Ricardo Pinto Schuenck,
  • Roberta Mello Ferreira Caboclo,
  • Dennis de Carvalho Ferreira,
  • Simone Aranha Nouér,
  • Kátia Regina Netto dos Santos

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 46, no. 1
pp. 100 – 102

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INTRODUCTION: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can be difficult to detect at the clinical practice. METHODS: We analyzed 140 MRSA isolates from inpatients to correlate the antimicrobial susceptibility with the SCCmec types. RESULTS: Type III (n = 63) isolates were more resistant to ciprofloxacin, clindamycin, cloramphenicol, erythromycin, gentamicin, and rifampin than type IV (n = 65) ones (p CONCLUSIONS: In regions where these SCCmec types are prevalent, the detection of specific resistant phenotypes could help to predict them, mainly when there are no technical conditions to SCCmec typing.

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