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Resistant staph microbe reappears
Drug-resistant strains of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus have been identified in three people in the United States.
References:
Sieradzki, K., et al. 1999. The development of vancomycin resistance in a patient with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection. New England Journal of Medicine 340(Feb. 18):517.
Smith, T.L., M.L. Pearson, et al. 1999. Emergence of vancomycin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus. New England Journal of Medicine 340(Feb. 18):493.
Waldvogel, F.A. 1999. New resistance in Staphylococcus aureus. New England Journal of Medicine 340(Feb. 18):556.
Further Readings:
Edmond, M.B., R.P. Wenzel, and A.W. Pasculle. 1996. Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus perspectives on measures needed for control. Annals of Internal Medicine 124:329.
Veach, L.A., et al. 1990. Vancomycin resistance in Staphylococcus haemolyticus causing colonization and bloodstream infection. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 28:2064.
Sources:
Michele L. Pearson
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Hospital Infections Program
Mailstop Code E69
Atlanta, GA 30333
From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 11, March 13, 1999, p. 175. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.
