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Prevalence and molecular characterization of Staphylococcus aureus from human stool samples

Overview of attention for article published in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, March 2018
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Title
Prevalence and molecular characterization of Staphylococcus aureus from human stool samples
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Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, March 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13756-018-0331-3
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Authors

A. E. Kates, D. Thapaliya, T. C. Smith, M. L. Chorazy

Abstract

To determine the prevalence of intestinal S. aureus colonization of patients at a large teaching hospital and determine the molecular characteristics of the identified strains. The second objective of this research was to determine risk factors associated with S. aureus intestinal colonization. A cross-sectional study of 781 specimens from inpatients and outpatients at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Clinical Microbiology Laboratory was conducted. S. aureus was identified using traditional culture methodologies. Methicillin-resistance was determined via PCR of the mecA gene. PVL PCR, spa typing, and antimicrobial sensitivity testing were also done. A nested case-control study was done on a subset of patients with all colonized patients defined as cases and non-colonized controls. Medical record abstractions were done to identify risk factors for intestinal colonization in the nested study. Out of 625 patients included in the final study, 58 were positive for S. aureus (9.3%). One isolate was positive for the PVL gene. A high number of isolates were resistant to multiple antibiotics including oxacillin (43.1%), erythromycin (51.7%), and levofloxacin (41.4%). All isolates were susceptible to vancomycin, daptomycin, linezolid, and quinupristin-dalfopristin. In the nested study, having a disease or condition of the gastrointestinal tract significantly increased the odds of intestinal colonization (OR: 1.96, 95% CI: 1.04-3.7; aOR: 13.9, 95% CI: 1.67-115.7). No other variables were significantly associated with increased odds of colonization. S. aureus was identified from the stool of patients at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, with a large number of those isolates being resistant to antibiotics and may serve a reservoir for subsequent infections as well as asymptomatic transmission.

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Unknown 50 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 10 20%
Researcher 5 10%
Other 3 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 6%
Student > Master 3 6%
Other 7 14%
Unknown 19 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 6%
Other 6 12%
Unknown 23 46%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 July 2019.
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#7,266,223
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#678
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#122,171
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Outputs of similar age from Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
#28
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