MRSA dynamic circulation between the community and the hospital setting: new insights from a cohort study in Argentina

Staphylococcus aureus, particularly methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), is an important human pathogen that exhibit enhanced virulence and resistance to different antibiotics. It causes a wide range of infections from mild to life-threatening conditions, both in the hospital (healthcare-associated-infections/HAIs) and in the community (community-associated-infections/CAIs), resulting in increased costs for the healthcare system [1,2]. Although there has been a recent decrease in HAIs (but not among CA invasive infections), caused by MRSA, in EEUU [3] and in some European countries [4], the attributable mortality due to HA invasive and non-invasive infections by MRSA, is higher than the reported for most newly emergent multidrug-resistant gram-negative pathogens [5].

Source: Journal of Infection - October 10, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Danilo Barcudi, Ezequiel J. Sosa, Ricardo Lamberghini, Anal ía Garnero, Dario Tosoroni, Laura Decca, Liliana Gonzalez, María A. Kuyuk, Teresa Lopez, Ivana Herrero, Paulo Cortes, Myrian Figueroa, Ana L. Egea, Paula Gagetti, Darío A. Fernandez Do Porto, Source Type: research