Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus arrives in Hong Kong

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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2004 54(4):845-846; doi:10.1093/jac/dkh426
JAC vol.54 no.4 © The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2004; all rights reserved

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Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus arrives in Hong Kong

P. L. Ho¹^,*, Cindy W. S. Tse², Gannon C. Mak¹, K. H. Chow¹ and T. K. Ng²

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR; ² Department of Clinical Pathology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China

Keywords: community-acquired infections , methicillin resistance , S. aureus; molecular diagnostic techniques

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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a worldwide,firmly established healthcare-associated pathogen. Risk factorsfor MRSA include recent hospitalization or surgery, nursinghome residence, renal dialysis and exposure to invasive medicaldevices. Recently, cases of MRSA have been identified in healthycommunity-dwelling persons without risk factors for MRSA acquisition.Such community-acquired (CA) MRSA infections have been reportedin Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA and Europe. Here,we report the first case of CA-MRSA in Hong Kong.

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