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Frecuencia de staphylococcus aureus meticilinorresistente adquirido en la comunidad en un hospital de tercer nivel en Perú

Translated title of the contribution: Frequency of community-acquired methicilin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in a tertiary care hospital in Peru
  • Lucía Cabrejos-Hirashima
  • , Camila Vives-Kufoy
  • , Jaycia Inga-Salazar
  • , Lizeth Astocondor
  • , Noemi Hinostroza
  • , Coralith García
  • Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
  • Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt
  • Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia

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Abstract

In order to determine the frequency of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) isolates and to describe the antimicrobial resistance pattern and genotype, a cross-sectio-nal study was conducted in 2017 at the Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru. We found a MRSA prevalence of 46.1% in the 115 analyzed S. aureus isolates; most were reported from different secretions (26.4%) and blood (18.9%). We found high co-resistance (>75%) to clindamycin, erythromy-cin, gentamicin and ciprofloxacin. Regarding SSCmec typification, most of the isolates were identified as hospital-acquired MRSA (HA-MRSA) and a minority of them as CA-MRSA (2.6%). Despite its low prevalence when compared to other Latin American countries (27%), epidemiological surveillance is recommended to control local CA-MRSA dissemination.

Translated title of the contributionFrequency of community-acquired methicilin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in a tertiary care hospital in Peru
Original languageSpanish
Pages (from-to)313-317
Number of pages5
JournalRevista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica
Volume38
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2021

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