Evaluation of the double-zone hemolysis (DZH) test for the detection of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant .

Unlabelled: Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant (LA-MRSA), such as clonal-complex (CC)398, are of clinical relevance due to their multi-drug resistance profiles, adding to the overall burden of MRSA in humans. The objective was to evaluate the double-zone hemolysis (DZH) test as a simple and reliable method for detecting LA-MRSA in the clinical microbiology laboratory. isolates assigned to CC398 ( = 183; 152 MRSA/31 methicillin-susceptible [MSSA]), CC1 ( = 44; MRSA), and other CCs ( = 144; 94 MRSA/50 MSSA) were investigated.

Antimicrobial Resistance and Antimicrobial Activity of Obtained from Two Spanish Hospitals.

is a coagulase-negative-staphylococci (CoNS) that lately has gained special attention in public health as a human pathogen and also as a bacteriocin-producer bacteria. In this study, we characterized 56 isolates recovered from human samples in two Spanish hospitals. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed and antimicrobial resistance and virulence genotypes were determined.