A multidrug-resistant, methicillin-susceptible strain of Staphylococcus aureus from a neonatal intensive care unit in Oslo, Norway

Scand J Infect Dis. 2010;42(2):148-51. doi: 10.3109/00365540903334401.

Abstract

Over a 6-month period in 2008, approximately 15% of all Staphylococcus aureus isolates from our neonatal intensive care unit were resistant to penicillin, gentamicin, erythromycin and clindamycin. Extended antibiotic susceptibility testing and molecular profiling revealed an outbreak of an S. aureus strain with a rare susceptibility pattern for a Scandinavian setting.

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology*
  • Bacterial Proteins / genetics
  • Bacterial Typing Techniques
  • DNA Fingerprinting
  • Disease Outbreaks*
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial*
  • Genotype
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Intensive Care, Neonatal
  • Methicillin / pharmacology*
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Norway / epidemiology
  • Staphylococcal Infections / epidemiology*
  • Staphylococcal Infections / microbiology*
  • Staphylococcus aureus / drug effects*
  • Staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Bacterial Proteins
  • Methicillin