RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Kaibni, Maha H. A1 Farraj, Mohammad A. A1 Adwan, Kamel A1 Essawi, Tamer A.YR 2009 T1 Community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Palestine JF Journal of Medical Microbiology, VO 58 IS 5 SP 644 OP 647 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.007617-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1473-5644, AB Community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is becoming an important public-health problem. This study attempted to investigate S. aureus and MRSA colonization in nasal swabs obtained from 843 patients without a history of hospitalization at the time of hospital admission and from 72 health-care workers chosen for comparison. Of the patients, S. aureus was detected in 218/843 (25.9 %) and MRSA in 17/843 (2.0 %). Of the health-care workers, S. aureus was detected in 15/72 (20.8 %) and MRSA in 10/72 (13.9 %). The majority of the 27 MRSA isolates exhibited a sensitivity pattern expected for CA-MRSA. Multilocus restriction fragment typing resolved the isolates into eight restriction fragment types. The predominant restriction fragment types were AAACCAA and AAAAAAA, accounting for 51.9 % (14/27) of the MRSA isolates and included CC5 and CC1 groups, respectively. This study thus demonstrated the transmission of CA-MRSA strain types into a health-care setting, emphasizing the need for implementation of a revised set of control measures in both hospital and community settings., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.007617-0