Staphylococcus Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Staphylococcus, including details on mrsa, hospitals, infection, antibiotic resistance, superbugs.

Volume 5 (2008), Issue 3 (March)

1. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission: the possible importance of unrecognized health care worker carriage.
   Am J Infect Control, 36(2): 93-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Oritavancin exhibits dual mode of action to inhibit cell-wall biosynthesis in Staphylococcus aureus.
   J Mol Biol, 377(1): 281-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Community associated methicillin resistant staphylococcal infections in a pediatric urology practice.
   J Urol, 179(3): 1098-101. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. The foldon substructure of staphylococcal nuclease.
   J Mol Biol, 376(4): 1142-54. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Childhood epistaxis and nasal colonization with Staphylococcus aureus.
   Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg, 138(3): 307-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Crystal structures of human and Staphylococcus aureus pyruvate carboxylase and molecular insights into the carboxyltransfer reaction.
   Nat Struct Mol Biol, 15(3): 295-302. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. A cholesterol biosynthesis inhibitor blocks Staphylococcus aureus virulence.
   Science, 319(5868): 1391-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Bacteremia and infective endocarditis caused by a non-daptomycin-susceptible, vancomycin-intermediate, and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain in Taiwan.
   J Clin Microbiol, 46(3): 1132-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Severe necrotizing fasciitis in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive patient caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
   J Clin Microbiol, 46(3): 1144-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Clinical and microbiological aspects of linezolid resistance mediated by the cfr gene encoding a 23S rRNA methyltransferase.
    J Clin Microbiol, 46(3): 892-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Epidemiological characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from children with eczematous atopic dermatitis lesions.
    J Clin Microbiol, 46(3): 991-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Genetic classification and distinguishing of Staphylococcus species based on different partial gap, 16S rRNA, hsp60, rpoB, sodA, and tuf gene sequences.
    J Clin Microbiol, 46(3): 1019-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Novel multiplex PCR assay for simultaneous identification of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains USA300 and USA400 and detection of mecA and Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes, with discrimination of Staphylococcus aureus from coagulase-negative staphylococci.
    J Clin Microbiol, 46(3): 1118-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Cell wall investigations utilizing tip-enhanced Raman scattering.
    J Microsc, 229: 533-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Universal screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at hospital admission and nosocomial infection in surgical patients.
    JAMA, 299(10): 1149-57. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Regulation of epidermal tight-junctions (TJ) during infection with exfoliative toxin-negative Staphylococcus strains.
    J Invest Dermatol, 128(4): 906-16. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Crystal structure of IcaR, a repressor of the TetR family implicated in biofilm formation in Staphylococcus epidermidis.
    Nucleic Acids Res, 36(5): 1567-77. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Panton-Valentine leukocidin-producing methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus as a cause for recurrent, contagious skin infections in young, healthy travelers returned from a tropical country: a new worldwide public health problem?
    J Travel Med, 15(2): 137-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. An outbreak of colonization with linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis in an intensive therapy unit.
    J Antimicrob Chemother, 61(4): 901-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Iron-regulated biofilm formation in Staphylococcus aureus Newman requires ica and the secreted protein Emp.
    Infect Immun, 76(4): 1756-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. IsdA protects Staphylococcus aureus against the bactericidal protease activity of apolactoferrin.
    Infect Immun, 76(4): 1518-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. alphaB-crystallin protects retinal tissue during Staphylococcus aureus-induced endophthalmitis.
    Infect Immun, 76(4): 1781-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Influence of dTMP on the phenotypic appearance and intracellular persistence of Staphylococcus aureus.
    Infect Immun, 76(4): 1333-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Comparison of the cidal activity of tea tree oil and terpinen-4-ol against clinical bacterial skin isolates and human fibroblast cells.
    Lett Appl Microbiol, 46(4): 428-33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Role for staphylococci in misguided thrombus resolution of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.
    Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol, 28(4): 678-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. A nitric oxide-inducible lactate dehydrogenase enables Staphylococcus aureus to resist innate immunity.
    Science, 319(5870): 1672-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Effect of Lactococcus garvieae, Lactococcus lactis and Enterococcus faecalis on the behaviour of Staphylococcus aureus in microfiltered milk.
    Food Microbiol, 25(3): 502-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Evaluation of three different molecular markers for the detection of Staphylococcus aureus by polymerase chain reaction.
    Food Microbiol, 25(3): 452-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Oxybutynin effects on Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm production.
    South Med J, 101(3): 236-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization in HIV outpatients: persistent or transient?
    Am J Infect Control, 36(3): 187-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. The risk of infection after nasal colonization with Staphylococcus aureus.
    Am J Med, 121(4): 310-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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