A picture of MRSA in the PALOP Countries

摘要

2021 SEP 21 (NewsRx) - By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Disease Prevention Daily - The first whole genome analysis of a Staphylococcus aureus collection recovered from carriage in an African country has just been published by a team of European and African researchers, including ITQB NOVA's Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and the Escola Superior de Saude da Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa. The analysis covers work developed for almost 25 years, when the team led by ITQB NOVA's researcher Herminia de Lencastre did the first surveillance study on S. aureus in Cape Verde hospitals. At the time, no isolates of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) were found - a situation that has substantially changed since then.