TY - JOUR AU - Xie, Xiaoying AU - Bao, Yunwen AU - Ouyang, Nengyong AU - Dai, Xinlu AU - Pan, Kunyi AU - Chen, Baiji AU - Deng, Yawen AU - Wu, Xiquan AU - Xu, Fengqin AU - Li, Hongyu AU - Huang, Songyin PY - 2016 DA - 2016/07/22 TI - Molecular epidemiology and characteristic of virulence gene of community-acquired and hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates in Sun Yat-sen Memorial hospital, Guangzhou, Southern China JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 339 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major cause of both hospital and community infections globally. It’s important to illuminate the differences between community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) and hospital-acquired MRSA (HA-MRSA), but there have been confusions on the definition, especially for the MRSA isolates identified within 48 h of admission. This study aimed to determine the molecular characteristics and virulence genes profile of CA and HA-MRSA isolates identified less than 48 h after hospital admission in our region. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-1684-y DO - 10.1186/s12879-016-1684-y ID - Xie2016 ER -