Emran Askari

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What is the difference between the terms "microbial flora" and "microbiota"?

It seems that microbiota is now being used more often in the literature. Could anyone explain the difference between these two?

22 March 2013 7,151 39 View

What is the clinical utility of spa typing, SCCmec typing and MLST?

Can somebody help me explaining the clinical usefulness of these three typing methods used for S. aureus?

11 December 2012 8,005 5 View

Has anybody seen an article about non-antibiotic drugs which can cause selective pressure and/or induce antibiotic resistance?

Theoretically it is possible but I have not found anything about it.

02 November 2012 8,972 7 View

Can anyone explain the exact defintion of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)?

According to Otter et al. (J Hosp Infect 2011), CA-MRSA can be categorized by epidemiologic criteria, antibiotic susceptibility pattern and molecular approach. The latter seems to be more precise,...

18 October 2012 9,011 6 View