Clinical StudiesDecreasing prevalence of heterogeneous vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus among blood isolates in Korean hospitals
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Background
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections have imposed a high burden on healthcare resources as well as significant morbidity and mortality. A recent epidemiology of community-associated (CA) MRSA worldwide has added another serious concern (Joo et al., 2012). Furthermore, vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus (VISA) and heterogeneous VISA (hVISA) have been increasingly reported; however, the true prevalence of hVISA is unclear.
A nationwide surveillance of MRSA clinical isolates
Funding
This work was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2012R1A1A2006672) and a grant (2013E4400400) from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
Acknowledgements
Part of this research was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Korean Society of Infectious Diseases, Jeju, Korea, 2014.
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