Methicillin-SensitiveStaphylococcus aureusCC398 in Intensive Care Unit, France

• DOI: 10.3201/eid2009.130225
• Publication Date: 2014-07-16T14:01:05Z
• Authors: Anne-Sophie Brunel; Anne-Laure Bañuls; Hélène Marchandin; Nicolas Bouzinbi; David Morquin; Estelle Jumas-Bilak; Philippe Corne
• Keywords: DNA, Bacterial; Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Genotype; Virulence Factors; 610; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; MSSA; intensive care unit; clonal complex 398; 03 medical and health sciences; methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus; 616; Pneumonia, Staphylococcal; Prevalence; Humans; double-locus sequence typing; Prospective Studies; bacteria; Cross Infection; 0303 health sciences; R; Dispatch; Staphylococcal Infections; 3. Good health; [SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]; Intensive Care Units; Genes, Bacterial; Medicine; France; [SDV.MP.BAC] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Bacteriology; Multilocus Sequence Typing

During testing for Staphylococcus aureus in an intensive care unit France 2011, we found that methicillin-sensitive S. clonal complex 398 was the most frequent clone (29/125, 23.2%). It isolated from patients (5/89, 5.6%), health workers (2/63, 3.2%), and environmental sites (15/864, 1.7%). Results indicate emergence of this a hospital setting.