b]Published Online: 28 Jan 2009
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
The population structure of Staphylococcus aureus among general practice patients from The Netherlands
荷兰一般患者中MRSA携带者的人群结构
G. A. Donker 1 , R. H. Deurenberg 2 , C. Driessen 2 , S. Sebastian 2 , S. Nys 2 and E. E. Stobberingh 2 1) Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL), Utrecht and 2) Department of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Corresponding author and reprint requests: R. H. Deurenberg, Department of Medical Microbiology, Maastricht Infection Centre (MINC) University Hospital Maastricht, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands
E-mail: ruud.deurenberg@mumc.nl
Copyright Journal compilation © 2009 European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
KEYWORDS
Antibiotic resistance ? general practitioner ? S. aureus ? spa typing ? The Netherlands
ABSTRACT
To investigate the prevalence, the antibiotic resistance pattern and the population structure of Staphylococcus aureus, S. aureus isolates from the anterior nostrils of patients of general practitioners (GPs) were analysed. Insight into the S. aureus population structure is essential, as nasal carriers of S. aureus are at increased risk of developing an S. aureus infection. S. aureus was isolated from nasal swabs from 2691 patients with no sign of an infection collected in 29 GP practices in The Netherlands. The susceptibility pattern for several classes of antibiotics was determined, as well as the S. aureus genetic background, using spa typing. S. aureus was isolated from 617 of the 2691 (23%) nasal swabs. The prevalences of resistance to ciprofloxacin, co-trimoxazole, fusidic acid, macrolides and mupirocin were 0.2%, 0%, 6%, 5% and 1%, respectively. Half of the isolates were associated with a genetic background common to the major methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) clones, e.g. clonal complex (CC)1, CC5, CC8, CC22, CC30 and CC45, and the remainder were mainly associated with CC7, CC12, CC15, CC26, CC51 and CC101. The low prevalences of resistance suggest that, in the Dutch situation, S. aureus isolates from patients visiting their GP because of complaints not related to infection do not represent a large reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes. Although no MRSA isolates were found, the genetic background of some of the S. aureus isolates is commonly observed among community-associated (CA)-MRSA clones (CC1, CC8 and CC30), and this might suggest that these isolates have the potential to become CA-MRSA.
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