ST8: USA300

ST8: USA300
	Electron micrograph of MRSA
Systematics
Department :	Firmicutes
Class :	Bacilli
Order :	Bacillales
Family :	Staphylococcaceae
Genre :	Staphylococcus
Type :	ST8: USA300
Scientific name
	Staphylococcus aureus
	Rosenbach 1884

ST8: USA300 is a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) type . It is antibiotic-resistant , contagious, and leads to rapidly progressing, fatal disease with necrotic pneumonia, severe sepsis, and necrotizing fasciitis .

The epidemiology of infections caused by MRSA has changed dramatically: MRSA has invaded society over the past ten years. The two MRSA clones USA400 and 300 have since appeared in the United States and Western Europe, mostly contain Panton-Valentine leukocidine (PVL-MRSA) and often begin as skin and soft tissue infections. Outbreaks of so-called community-associated infections (CA) -MRSA were found in prisons, sports teams, among recruits, in maternity clinics, old people's homes and among active homosexual men. They are found epidemically in many urban areas today and are responsible for most MRSA infections.

literature

Complete genomic sequence from USA300. PMID 16517273 .
SF gay community an epicenter for new strain of virulent staph . In: San Francisco Chronicle , Jan. 15, 2008.

Web links

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Individual evidence

^ S. Boyle-Vavra, RS Daum: Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: the role of Panton-Valentine leukocidin . In: Lab. Invest., 87 (1), 200, pp. 3-9, PMID 17146447 .
↑ CL Maree, RS Daum, S Boyle-Vavra, K Matayoshi, LG Miller: Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates causing healthcare-associated infections . In: Emerging Infect. Dis., 13 (2), 2007, pp. 236-242.

[1] S. Boyle-Vavra, RS Daum: Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: the role of Panton-Valentine leukocidin . In: Lab. Invest., 87 (1), 200, pp. 3-9, PMID 17146447 .

[2] CL Maree, RS Daum, S Boyle-Vavra, K Matayoshi, LG Miller: Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates causing healthcare-associated infections . In: Emerging Infect. Dis., 13 (2), 2007, pp. 236-242.