Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus In Waste Pickers

Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus In Waste Pickers

Prevalence and SCCmec characterization of CA-MRSA in young waste pickers of the Iloilo City dumpsite, Philippines

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Staphylococcus aureus is a versatile pathogen capable of a wide spectrum of etiologies frequently seen in all ages, and about 30% of the general population are colonized asymptomatically with S. aureus in the anterior nares. The use of methicillin in the 1960s was rapidly followed by the first outbreaks of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) and over the years, MRSA strains have gained multiple mechanisms of resistance to almost all commercially available antibiotics. Although several studies have been conducted about its prevalence in different communities and its geographic distribution, ...