PMID- 22360009
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120320
LR  - 20220311
IS  - 1020-3397 (Print)
IS  - 1020-3397 (Linking)
VI  - 18
IP  - 1
DP  - 2012 Jan
TI  - Isolation and screening of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from 
      health care workers in Libyan hospitals.
PG  - 37-42
AB  - This is the largest Libyan study to date to investigate the prevalence and 
      antimicrobial susceptibility of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus 
      (MRSA) among health care workers in Tripoli, Libya. A total of 569 doctors and 
      nurses from 4 main hospitals were screened for MRSA with specimens collected from 
      the anterior nares. Isolates from 109 of the 569 subjects (19%) were confirmed as 
      MRSA by polymerase chain reaction assay; the majority (98/109) were from a 
      general hospital. Antimicrobial resistance patterns tested by disk diffusion were 
      as follows: erythromycin (74%), ciprofloxacin (77%), clindamycin (20%), 
      trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (50%), quinuprisin/dalfopristin (19%), vancomycin 
      (12%) and mupirocin (5%). Eighteen isolates exhibited 
      macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B resistance (MLSB): 6 were MLSBi and 12 were 
      MLSBc. The results provide evidence that Libyan health care workers could serve 
      as MRSA carriers and play a role in the dissemination of MRSA to the public and 
      other workers.
FAU - Ahmed, M O
AU  - Ahmed MO
AD  - Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 
      University of Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya. a.mo@live.com
FAU - Elramalli, A K
AU  - Elramalli AK
FAU - Amri, S G
AU  - Amri SG
FAU - Abuzweda, A R
AU  - Abuzweda AR
FAU - Abouzeed, Y M
AU  - Abouzeed YM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Multicenter Study
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - Egypt
TA  - East Mediterr Health J
JT  - Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee 
      orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit
JID - 9608387
SB  - IM
MH  - Carrier State/epidemiology/*prevention & control
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient/*prevention & control
MH  - Libya/epidemiology
MH  - *Mass Screening
MH  - *Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus/drug effects/isolation & 
      purification
MH  - Microbial Sensitivity Tests
MH  - *Personnel, Hospital
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - Staphylococcal Infections/epidemiology/*prevention & control
EDAT- 2012/03/01 06:00
MHDA- 2012/03/21 06:00
CRDT- 2012/02/25 06:00
PHST- 2012/02/25 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/03/01 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/03/21 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.26719/2012.18.1.37 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - East Mediterr Health J. 2012 Jan;18(1):37-42. doi: 10.26719/2012.18.1.37.