Hospital epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility of isolated methicillin-resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>: a one-year retrospective study at a tertiary care center in Thailand
Palapun Waitayangkoon, Achitpol Thongkam, Tanawat Benjamungkalarak, Muanpetch Rachayon, Aphisit Thongthaisin, Tanittha Chatsuwan, Arsa Thammahong, Direkrit Chiewchengchol
Abstract
BACKGROUND: resistance and its morbidity and mortality have raised concern about the strategy of antibiotic use. OBJECTIVES: infection and to identify risk factors and appropriate antibiotics for these resistant strains. METHODS: infection. RESULTS: < 0.001). Comorbidities significantly associated with MRSA were chronic lung, cardiovascular, and neurological diseases. Atrial fibrillation, dementia, and benign prostatic hyperplasia were independently associated with MRSA isolation. Vancomycin was still susceptible to all kinds of infection. One VRSA isolate was from colonization. CONCLUSION: isolates in our center were sensitive to vancomycin. However, careful attention is warranted since one colonization isolate was VRSA.