The invited lecture at the Congres of Slovenian Society for Microbiology has given the overview on recent advances in C. difficile epidemiology, zoonotic potential and pathogenesis.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 3209807CA- MRSA strains isolated in year 2010 that was susceptible to at least two of the following four antibiotics: ciprofloxacin, erythromycin, clindamycin or gentamicin were investigated. Altogether we collected 151 MRSA isolates of which 15 (9.9%) belonged to a spa type known to be associated with the clone ST398 respectively. Among them 12 isolates belonged to spa type t011, 2 isolates to t034 and 1 isolate to t108. We found the staphylococcal cassette chromosome - SCCmec type IV or V, and regulatory genes - agr type I. None of the isolates were positive for Panton - Valentine leukocidin (PVL), the toxic shock syndrome toxin (tst) and leukocidin LukM. All MRSA isolates were resistant to tetracycline and penicillin. Some of them were also resistant to erythromycin and clindamycin. Most of the LA-MRSA ST398 were isolated from screening specimens of patients from Murska Sobota and Maribor, which are the most important agricultural regions with intensive livestock breeding.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 31704281Short selected oral presentation given at the Congres of Slovenian Society for Microbiology is describing the results of genomic analysis of C. difficile ribosomal intergenic region and comparatice henomics of selected C. difficile toxinotypes.
B.06 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 512439608