Published in Lancet Infect Dis on October 01, 2005
Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in rural Asia. Lancet Infect Dis (2006) 1.80
Use of a single-nucleotide polymorphism genotyping system to demonstrate the unique epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in remote aboriginal communities. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.43
Peripatetic health-care workers as potential superspreaders. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.37
Phenotypic detection of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus by disk diffusion testing and Etest on Mueller-Hinton agar. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.33
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A public health issue with economic consequences. Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol (2007) 1.28
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Spain: molecular epidemiology and utility of different typing methods. J Clin Microbiol (2009) 1.16
Safety and immunogenicity of a novel Staphylococcus aureus vaccine: results from the first study of the vaccine dose range in humans. Clin Vaccine Immunol (2010) 1.07
Bacteriophage-resistant Staphylococcus aureus mutant confers broad immunity against staphylococcal infection in mice. PLoS One (2010) 1.05
Rapid identification of hospitalized patients at high risk for MRSA carriage. J Am Med Inform Assoc (2008) 1.02
Transmission dynamics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a medical intensive care unit in India. PLoS One (2011) 1.01
Epidemiological and genetic diversity of Staphylococcus aureus causing bloodstream infection in Shanghai, 2009-2011. PLoS One (2013) 0.99
Changing epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Iceland from 2000 to 2008: a challenge to current guidelines. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 0.98
Antimicrobial drugs and community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, United Kingdom. Emerg Infect Dis (2007) 0.95
Successful control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in endemic neonatal intensive care units--a 7-year campaign. PLoS One (2011) 0.94
Multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus discriminates within USA pulsed-field gel electrophoresis types. J Hosp Infect (2009) 0.92
Excess mortality and long-term disability from healthcare-associated staphylococcus aureus infections: a population-based matched cohort study. PLoS One (2013) 0.84
Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST9 in pigs and related personnel in Taiwan. PLoS One (2014) 0.84
Structure of Staphylococcus aureus cytidine monophosphate kinase in complex with cytidine 5'-monophosphate. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun (2006) 0.83
High prevalence of Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) genes in nosocomial-acquired Staphylococcus aureus isolated from tertiary care hospitals in Nepal. Biomed Res Int (2014) 0.83
Prevalence and acquisition of MRSA amongst patients admitted to a tertiary-care hospital in Brazil. BMC Infect Dis (2010) 0.82
Profile of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among nursing home residents in Hawai'i. Hawaii Med J (2010) 0.81
Antimicrobial resistance profile of Staphylococcus aureus isolates obtained from skin and soft tissue infections of outpatients from a university hospital in Recife -PE, Brazil. An Bras Dermatol (2012) 0.81
The Lantibiotic Lacticin 3147 Prevents Systemic Spread of Staphylococcus aureus in a Murine Infection Model. Int J Microbiol (2012) 0.81
The importance of a judicious and early empiric choice of antimicrobial for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis (2010) 0.81
Cloning, expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of N-acetylneuraminate lyase from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun (2013) 0.80
Surveillance for antimicrobial drug resistance in under-resourced countries. Emerg Infect Dis (2014) 0.79
Prevalence of nasal methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in healthcare workers in a Western Australian acute care hospital. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis (2011) 0.79
Implementing the MRSA recommendations made by the Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention (KRINKO) of 1999 - current considerations by the DGKH Management Board. GMS Krankenhhyg Interdiszip (2009) 0.77
Telavancin shows superior activity to vancomycin with multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a range of in vitro biofilm models. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis (2013) 0.77
Molecular and epidemiological evaluation of strain replacement in patients previously harboring gentamicin-resistant MRSA. J Clin Microbiol (2011) 0.77
Prospective Analysis Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and its Risk Factors. J Glob Infect Dis (2013) 0.77
Sccmec type II gene is common among clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Jakarta, Indonesia. BMC Res Notes (2013) 0.76
Tet38 Efflux Pump Affects Staphylococcus aureus Internalization by Epithelial Cells through Interaction with CD36 and Contributes to Bacterial Escape from Acidic and Non-Acidic Phagolysosomes. Infect Immun (2016) 0.75
Comparison of the BD Phoenix system with the cefoxitin disk diffusion test for detection of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci. J Clin Microbiol (2009) 0.75
Checks and balances: the ocular response to infection. Virulence (2010) 0.75
Poor survival of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on inanimate objects in the public spaces. Microbiologyopen (2015) 0.75
Decline of Nosocomial Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in an Indian Tertiary Hospital: Hope for the Future. J Clin Diagn Res (2017) 0.75
Preventing surgical-site infections in nasal carriers of Staphylococcus aureus. N Engl J Med (2010) 8.50
Universal screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at hospital admission and nosocomial infection in surgical patients. JAMA (2008) 7.60
Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet (2010) 6.16
The impact of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia on patient outcomes: mortality, length of stay, and hospital charges. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2005) 5.86
Risk and outcome of nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in nasal carriers versus non-carriers. Lancet (2004) 5.27
Isolation of patients in single rooms or cohorts to reduce spread of MRSA in intensive-care units: prospective two-centre study. Lancet (2005) 5.01
Limited efficacy of alcohol-based hand gels. Lancet (2002) 4.65
Inappropriate initial antimicrobial therapy and its effect on survival in a clinical trial of immunomodulating therapy for severe sepsis. Am J Med (2003) 4.56
Type VII secretion--mycobacteria show the way. Nat Rev Microbiol (2007) 4.45
Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings: recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2002) 4.26
Procalcitonin guidance of antibiotic therapy in community-acquired pneumonia: a randomized trial. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2006) 4.15
Evolutionary origin and emergence of a highly successful clone of serotype M1 group a Streptococcus involved multiple horizontal gene transfer events. J Infect Dis (2005) 3.89
Characteristics and outcomes of public campaigns aimed at improving the use of antibiotics in outpatients in high-income countries. Lancet Infect Dis (2010) 3.65
Epidemiology of Candida species infections in critically ill non-immunosuppressed patients. Lancet Infect Dis (2003) 3.33
Prevention of severe Candida infections in nonneutropenic, high-risk, critically ill patients: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in patients treated by selective digestive decontamination. Intensive Care Med (2002) 3.33
Rapid detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus directly from sterile or nonsterile clinical samples by a new molecular assay. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 3.27
Epidemiology of candidemia in Swiss tertiary care hospitals: secular trends, 1991-2000. Clin Infect Dis (2004) 3.25
Micafungin versus liposomal amphotericin B for candidaemia and invasive candidosis: a phase III randomised double-blind trial. Lancet (2007) 3.11
Ready for a world without antibiotics? The Pensières Antibiotic Resistance Call to Action. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control (2012) 3.02
New developments in the diagnosis of bloodstream infections. Lancet Infect Dis (2004) 3.01
Use of procalcitonin to shorten antibiotic treatment duration in septic patients: a randomized trial. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2007) 2.88
Mupirocin prophylaxis against nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus infections in nonsurgical patients: a randomized study. Ann Intern Med (2004) 2.84
Clinical and microbiological characteristics of severe Streptococcus pyogenes disease in Europe. J Clin Microbiol (2009) 2.80
Developed-developing country partnerships: benefits to developed countries? Global Health (2012) 2.80
Health-care workers: source, vector, or victim of MRSA? Lancet Infect Dis (2008) 2.79
Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings. Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HIPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force. Am J Infect Control (2002) 2.68
Patient participation: current knowledge and applicability to patient safety. Mayo Clin Proc (2010) 2.66
Determining the genetic structure of the natural population of Staphylococcus aureus: a comparison of multilocus sequence typing with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis, and phage typing. J Clin Microbiol (2002) 2.65
Society's failure to protect a precious resource: antibiotics. Lancet (2011) 2.51
The effect of workload on infection risk in critically ill patients. Crit Care Med (2007) 2.42
Adequacy of antimicrobial treatment and outcome of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in 9 Western European countries. Clin Infect Dis (2009) 2.39
Cutting edge: carbohydrate profiling identifies new pathogens that interact with dendritic cell-specific ICAM-3-grabbing nonintegrin on dendritic cells. J Immunol (2003) 2.39
Antibiotic selection pressure and resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae and Streptococcus pyogenes. Emerg Infect Dis (2004) 2.35
Successful implementation of the World Health Organization hand hygiene improvement strategy in a referral hospital in Mali, Africa. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2010) 2.35
Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in humans, Europe. Emerg Infect Dis (2011) 2.35
Low apolipoprotein A-I level at intensive care unit admission and systemic inflammatory response syndrome exacerbation. Crit Care Med (2004) 2.33
The impact of enhanced cleaning within the intensive care unit on contamination of the near-patient environment with hospital pathogens: a randomized crossover study in critical care units in two hospitals. Crit Care Med (2011) 2.23
A randomized clinical trial to compare fleroxacin-rifampicin with flucloxacillin or vancomycin for the treatment of staphylococcal infection. Clin Infect Dis (2004) 2.22
Health-care-associated infection in Africa: a systematic review. Bull World Health Organ (2011) 2.18
New trends in Staphylococcus aureus infections: glycopeptide resistance in hospital and methicillin resistance in the community. Curr Opin Infect Dis (2002) 2.17
Global implementation of WHO's multimodal strategy for improvement of hand hygiene: a quasi-experimental study. Lancet Infect Dis (2013) 2.15
Diagnostic and prognostic accuracy of clinical and laboratory parameters in community-acquired pneumonia. BMC Infect Dis (2007) 2.11
Helicobacter pylori modulates the T helper cell 1/T helper cell 2 balance through phase-variable interaction between lipopolysaccharide and DC-SIGN. J Exp Med (2004) 2.08
Infection in breast implants. Lancet Infect Dis (2005) 2.06
Quantification of bacteria adherent to gastrointestinal mucosa by real-time PCR. J Clin Microbiol (2002) 2.06
Nottingham Staphylococcus aureus population study: prevalence of MRSA among elderly people in the community. BMJ (2002) 2.04
Resistance to selective decontamination: the jury is still out. Lancet Infect Dis (2013) 2.03
The World Health Organization hand hygiene observation method. Am J Infect Control (2009) 2.01
Zebrafish embryos as a model host for the real time analysis of Salmonella typhimurium infections. Cell Microbiol (2003) 1.98
Evaluation of three molecular assays for rapid identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.97
A specific secretion system mediates PPE41 transport in pathogenic mycobacteria. Mol Microbiol (2006) 1.97
Interventional study to evaluate the impact of an alcohol-based hand gel in improving hand hygiene compliance. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2002) 1.92
Evaluating the probability of previously unknown carriage of MRSA at hospital admission. Am J Med (2006) 1.90
Does antibiotic selection impact patient outcome? Clin Infect Dis (2006) 1.88
A call for action: the application of The International Health Regulations to the global threat of antimicrobial resistance. PLoS Med (2011) 1.88
Use of an automated multiple-locus, variable-number tandem repeat-based method for rapid and high-throughput genotyping of Staphylococcus aureus isolates. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 1.88
Evaluation of rapid screening and pre-emptive contact isolation for detecting and controlling methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in critical care: an interventional cohort study. Crit Care (2006) 1.86
Evaluation of molecular typing methods in characterizing a European collection of epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains: the HARMONY collection. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.85
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Finland. Emerg Infect Dis (2002) 1.83
Epidemiology of severe Streptococcus pyogenes disease in Europe. J Clin Microbiol (2008) 1.81
A star with stripes: zebrafish as an infection model. Trends Microbiol (2004) 1.76
Medical-grade honey kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria in vitro and eradicates skin colonization. Clin Infect Dis (2008) 1.75
Faster identification of pathogens in positive blood cultures by fluorescence in situ hybridization in routine practice. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.74
How honey kills bacteria. FASEB J (2010) 1.71
Pro-adrenomedullin to predict severity and outcome in community-acquired pneumonia [ISRCTN04176397]. Crit Care (2006) 1.70
Noma: an "infectious" disease of unknown aetiology. Lancet Infect Dis (2003) 1.70
Extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli from retail chicken meat and humans: comparison of strains, plasmids, resistance genes, and virulence factors. Clin Infect Dis (2012) 1.69
Foreign body infections due to Staphylococcus epidermidis. Ann Med (2009) 1.66
The Helicobacter pylori homologue of the ferric uptake regulator is involved in acid resistance. Infect Immun (2002) 1.65
A novel multiplex real-time PCR assay for rapid typing of major staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec elements. J Clin Microbiol (2004) 1.63
Impact of combined low-level mupirocin and genotypic chlorhexidine resistance on persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage after decolonization therapy: a case-control study. Clin Infect Dis (2011) 1.62
Alcohol-based handrub improves compliance with hand hygiene in intensive care units. Arch Intern Med (2002) 1.60
Ventilator-associated pneumonia: caveats for benchmarking. Intensive Care Med (2003) 1.60
Temporal effects of antibiotic use and hand rub consumption on the incidence of MRSA and Clostridium difficile. J Antimicrob Chemother (2008) 1.60
Patient empowerment and multimodal hand hygiene promotion: a win-win strategy. Am J Med Qual (2010) 1.58
Impact of reduced vancomycin susceptibility on the therapeutic outcome of MRSA bloodstream infections. Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob (2007) 1.57
Quantifying uncertainty: physicians' estimates of infection in critically ill neonates and children. Clin Infect Dis (2004) 1.57
Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Switzerland. Emerg Infect Dis (2005) 1.55
Clinical and nonclinical health care workers faced a similar risk of acquiring 2009 pandemic H1N1 infection. Clin Infect Dis (2011) 1.54
Risk factors for the transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an adult intensive care unit: fitting a model to the data. J Infect Dis (2002) 1.53
Periodontal pathogens: a quantitative comparison of anaerobic culture and real-time PCR. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol (2005) 1.52
Epidemiology and prognostic determinants of bloodstream infections in surgical intensive care. Arch Surg (2002) 1.51
Antibiotic use and resistance--proving the obvious. Lancet (2005) 1.51
Legionnaires' disease in a renal transplant recipient: nosocomial or home-grown? Transplantation (2002) 1.51
Is throat screening necessary to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in patients upon admission to an intensive care unit? J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.51
Use of benchmarking and public reporting for infection control in four high-income countries. Lancet Infect Dis (2011) 1.50
Mid-regional pro-adrenomedullin as a prognostic marker in sepsis: an observational study. Crit Care (2005) 1.49