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  Environmental MicrobiologySee Also: Volume 8 Issue 6, Pages 1130 - 1133 Published Online: 16 Feb 2006 © 2010 Society for Applied Microbiology and Blackwell Publishing Ltd Published jointly with the Society for Applied Microbiology
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 179K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Brief report Amoebae promote persistence of epidemic strains of MRSA Copyright © 2006 The Authors; Journal compilation © 2006 Society for Applied Microbiology and Blackwell Publishing Ltd ABSTRACTSummaryThe control of healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is of concern worldwide. Given the evidence that several pathogenic species replicate within amoebae and emerge more virulent and more resistant and the abundance of amoebae in healthcare settings, we investigated interactions of Acanthamoeba polyphaga with epidemic MRSA isolates. MRSA proliferated in the presence of amoebae, attributable partly to intracellular replication. Following 24 h of co-culture, confocal microscopy revealed that c. 50% amoebae had viable MRSA within phago-lysosomes and 2% of amoebae were heavily infected with viable cocci throughout the cytoplasm. Infection control strategies should recognize the contribution of protozoa. Received 10 October, 2005; accepted 14 December, 2005. | 
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