Are vancomycin resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus increasing?

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Emran Askari

Hi. The answer is yes.

You can refer to my review which is now published ahead of print in the "infectious diseases in clinical practice" journal. The available link is:

http://journals.lww.com/infectdis/Abstract/publishahead/VanA_Positive_Vancomycin_Resistant_Staphylococcus.99544.aspx

Some new reports of VRSA in the literature:

1st case in Europe, 1st case in Portugal:

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673613612192.pdf?id=aaasj9kHuRIIA41vvCJru

1st case in South America, 1st case in Brazil:

http://www.promedmail.org/direct.php?id=20130630.1800166

And we have also recently found a new VRSA from south of Iran, you can find the preliminary report of this unusual strain at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23880172.