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    Emergence and resurgence of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a public-health threat.

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    Authors
    Grundmann, Hajo
    Aires-de-Sousa, Marta
    Boyce, John
    Tiemersma, Edine
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    Emergence and resurgence of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a public-health threat.
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    Staphylococcus aureus is a gram-positive bacterium that colonises the skin and is present in the anterior nares in about 25-30% of healthy people. Dependent on its intrinsic virulence or the ability of the host to contain its opportunistic behaviour, S aureus can cause a range of diseases in man. The bacterium readily acquires resistance against all classes of antibiotics by one of two distinct mechanisms: mutation of an existing bacterial gene or horizontal transfer of a resistance gene from another bacterium. Several mobile genetic elements carrying exogenous antibiotic resistance genes might mediate resistance acquisition. Of all the resistance traits S aureus has acquired since the introduction of antimicrobial chemotherapy in the 1930s, meticillin resistance is clinically the most important, since a single genetic element confers resistance to the most commonly prescribed class of antimicrobials--the beta-lactam antibiotics, which include penicillins, cephalosporins, and carbapenems.
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    10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68853-3
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    16950365
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10029/5555
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    10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68853-3
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