J Med Microbiol Track the topics, authors and articles important to you
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via CrossRef
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Brook, I.
Right arrow Articles by Hausfeld, J. N.
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Brook, I.
Right arrow Articles by Hausfeld, J. N.
Agricola
Right arrow Articles by Brook, I.
Right arrow Articles by Hausfeld, J. N.
J Med Microbiol 57 (2008), 1015-1017; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.2008/000851-0
© 2008 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 1473-5644

Increase in the frequency of recovery of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in acute and chronic maxillary sinusitis

Itzhak Brook1, Perry A. Foote2 and Jeffrey N. Hausfeld1

1 Department of Pediatrics, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

2 Departments of Otolaryngology, Alachua General and North Florida Regional Hospitals, Gainesville, FL, USA

Correspondence
Itzhak Brook
ib6{at}georgetown.edu

Received 20 January 2008
Accepted 9 April 2008

This study compared the rate of recovery of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) between the periods 2001–2003 and 2004–2006 in acute and chronic maxillary sinusitis. Cultures were obtained from 458 patients, 244 with acute and 214 with chronic maxillary sinusitis; 215 isolates were recovered in the 2 years between 2001 and 2003 (118 from acute and 97 from chronic sinusitis), and 243 in the 2 years between 2004 and 2006 (126 from acute and 117 from chronic sinusitis). S. aureus was isolated from ten (8 %) of the patients with acute sinusitis between 2001 and 2003, three (30 %) of which were MRSA, and from 13 (10 %) of the patients with acute sinusitis between 2004 and 2006, nine (69 %) of which were MRSA (P <0.01). S. aureus was found in 15 (15 %) of the patients with chronic sinusitis between 2001 and 2003, four (27 %) of which were MRSA, and from 23 (20 %) of the patients with chronic sinusitis between 2004 and 2006, 14 (61 %) of which were MRSA (P <0.05). Antimicrobial therapy was administered over the last 3 months to 122 (57 %) of the patients with chronic sinusitis. MRSA was isolated more often from these individuals (28/122; 23 %) than from those not treated previously (10/92 or 11 %) (P <0.05). These data illustrate that a significant increase occurred in the rate of recovery of MRSA in patients with acute and chronic maxillary sinusitis over the periods studied.

Abbreviations: MRSA, meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.






HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
INT J SYST EVOL MICROBIOL J MED MICROBIOL MICROBIOLOGY J GEN VIROL ALL SGM JOURNALS
Copyright © 2008 Society for General Microbiology.