Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2001) 48, 143-144
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Dominance of EMRSA-15 and -16 among MRSA causing nosocomial bacteraemia in the UK: analysis of isolates from the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (EARSS)
a Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference Laboratory and b Laboratory of Hospital Infection, Central Public Health Laboratory, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5HT; c Antimicrobial Susceptibility Surveillance Unit, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
Sir,
The scale of the public health problem posed by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in England and Wales increased significantly during the 1990s. Most dramatically, the proportion of cases of S. aureus bacteraemia due to MRSA increased from 1–2% in 1990–1992 to c. 40% in 2000.1–3 This increase coincided with the emergence of two particular epidemic MRSA (EMRSA) strains, EMRSA-15 and EMRSA-16,4 which now dominate MRSA submissions
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