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Clinical Features and Molecular Characteristics of Methicillin-Susceptible <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Ocular Infection in Taiwan

This study analyzed the clinical features and molecular characteristics of methicillin-susceptible <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> (MSSA) ocular infections in Taiwan and compared them between community-associated (CA) and health-care-associated (HA) infections. We collected <i>S. aure...

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Main Authors: Yueh-Ling Chen (Author), Eugene Yu-Chuan Kang (Author), Lung-Kun Yeh (Author), David H. K. Ma (Author), Hsin-Yuan Tan (Author), Hung-Chi Chen (Author), Kuo-Hsuan Hung (Author), Yhu-Chering Huang (Author), Ching-Hsi Hsiao (Author)
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Published: MDPI AG, 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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Summary:This study analyzed the clinical features and molecular characteristics of methicillin-susceptible <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> (MSSA) ocular infections in Taiwan and compared them between community-associated (CA) and health-care-associated (HA) infections. We collected <i>S. aureus</i> ocular isolates from patients at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital between 2010 and 2017. The infections were classified as CA or HA using epidemiological criteria, and the isolates were molecularly characterized using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, multilocus sequence typing, and Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) gene detection. Antibiotic susceptibility was evaluated using disk diffusion and an E test. A total of 104 MSSA ocular isolates were identified; 46 (44.2%) were CA-MSSA and 58 (55.8%) were HA-MSSA. Compared with HA-MSSA strains, CA-MSSA strains caused a significantly higher rate of keratitis, but a lower rate of conjunctivitis. We identified 14 pulsotypes. ST 7/pulsotype BA was frequently identified in both CA-MSSA (28.3%) and HA-MSSA (37.9%) cases. PVL genes were identified in seven isolates (6.7%). Both CA-MSSA and HA-MSSA isolates were highly susceptible to vancomycin, teicoplanin, tigecycline, sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim, and fluoroquinolones. The most common ocular manifestations were keratitis and conjunctivitis for CA-MSSA and HA-MSSA, respectively. The MSSA ocular isolates had diverse molecular characteristics; no specific genotype differentiated CA-MSSA from HA-MSSA. Both strains exhibited similar antibiotic susceptibility.
Item Description:10.3390/antibiotics10121445
2079-6382

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