| carriage niches and molecular epidemiology of staphylococcus lugdunensis and methicillin-resistant s. lugdunensis among patients undergoing long-term renal replacement therapy. | we collected nasal, axilla, and groin swabs from 252 adult patients from 2 nephrology centers in hong kong. staphylococcus lugdunensis carriage was detected in 51.6% patients (groin, 39.3%; axilla, 19.8%; nose, 17.9%). the carriage rates of methicillin-sensitive s. lugdunensis and methicillin-resistant s. lugdunensis (mrsl) were 46.0% and 8.3%, respectively. independent risk factors for s. lugdunensis carriage included male sex (odds ratio [or], 4.4), hemodialysis (or, 2.2), and aged 18-50years ... | 2015 | 25498337 |
| emergence of iles2-carrying, multidrug-resistant plasmids in staphylococcus lugdunensis. | of 137 staphylococcus lugdunensis isolates collected from two nephrology centers in hong kong, 10 (7.3%) and 3 (2.2%) isolates had high-level and low-level mupirocin resistance, respectively. isolates with high-level resistance contained the plasmid-mediated iles2 gene, while isolates with low-level resistance contained the mutation v588f within the chromosomal iles gene. all but one of the iles2-positive isolates belong to the predominating clone hku1. plasmids carrying the iles2 gene were mosa ... | 2016 | 27503649 |