Community MRSA

Tuesday, 9 September 2008 15:00 - 16:30, Halls B, C and D

A one year pilot survey of CA-MRSA in Poland
  • Agnieszka Luczak-Kadlubowska, Centre of Quality Control in Microbiology, Poland
Nasal carriage of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (cMRSA) in adults in a high prevalence population
  • Wendy Munckhof, Infection Management Service, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Characterization of Danish MRSA isolates from community associated infections
  • Anders Rhod Larsen, Statens Serum Institut, Denmark
The Queensland clone comes to England
  • Matthew Ellington, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, London, United Kingdom
Dissemination of new CA-MRSA strain in the UK
  • Matthew Ellington, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, United Kingdom
The first sequence Type 80 community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain in the USA
  • Neeltje Carpaij, Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands, The Netherlands
Dissemination of USA300 MRSA in Western Australia
  • Julie Pearson, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital, Australia
Intrastrain variability of USA300 MRSA isolated in Western Australia
  • Stefan Monecke, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Comparison of community associated S. aureus types in community and hospital isolates in the Northern Territory of Australia
  • Rachael Lilliebridge, Menzies School of Health Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
Do ethnic differences in ca-MRSA strains relate to country of origin?: A comparison of prevalence and multi-Locus sequence types of non multi-resistant strains of ca-MRSA in Samoa and Auckland
  • Stephen Ritchie, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Genotyping of aberrant Australian CA-MRSA strains which may contain a novel agr group
  • Stefan Monecke, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
International MRSA clones identified in Western Australia
  • Hui-Leen Tan, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital, Australia
Three novel Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCCmec) in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated in Sweden
  • Carolina Berglund, Departments of Clinical Microbiology, Örebro University Hospital, and Infection Control Science, Juntendo University, Sweden
Clinical features of invasive community-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection: prospective case-control study
  • Michael Wehrhahn, Australia
Laboratory features of invasive community-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - correlation with clinical features in a prospective case-control study
  • Michael Wehrhahn, Australia
Colonisation with Staphylococcus aureus in remote Western Australian communities
  • Frances O'Brien, Gram-positive Bacteria Typing and Research Unit, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, Australia
Microarray analysis of Staphylococcus aureus colonising people in remote Western Australian communities
  • Frances O'Brien, Gram-positive Bacteria Typing and Research Unit, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, Australia
Drosophila melanogaster as a host model for community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA)
  • Kunyan Zhang, Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance, Calgary Health Region/Calgary Laboratory Services/University of Calgary, Canada