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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, doi:10.1093/jac/dkf252
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The first Staphylococcus aureus isolates with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin in Poland

Jolanta Krzyszton-Russjan 1, Marek Gniadkowski 1, Hanna Polowniak-Pracka 2, Elzbieta Hagmajer 2, Waleria Hryniewicz 1*

1 Sera and Vaccines Central Research Laboratory, ul. Chelmska 30/34, 00-725 Warsaw
2 The Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Centre and Institute of Oncology, ul. Roentgena 5, 02-185 Warsaw, Poland

* Corresponding author. E-mail: waleria{at}urania.il.waw.pl.

Received 25 March 2002 ; revised 30 August 2002 ; accepted 16 September 2002

Abstract

The first heterogeneously vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (hVISA) isolates to be identified in Poland were characterized. They were recovered in two Warsaw hospitals and, although in one of these the identification coincided with unsuccessful glycopeptide therapy, the selection conditions and clinical significance of the organisms remain unclear. Molecular typing revealed that the isolates were closely related and belonged to an international methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) clone known as ‘Iberian'. The analysis of epidemiologically related MRSA isolates and some archival Polish MRSA isolates of the same clone indicated that the hVISA phenotype has been present in the MRSA populations of some hospitals in Poland since at least 1998.


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