Recent Developments in Phenotypic and Molecular Diagnostic Methods for Antimicrobial Resistance Detection in Staphylococcus aureus: A Narrative Review

• Published in: Diagnostics (Basel) Vol. 12; no. 1; p. 208
• Main Author: Sanchini, Andrea
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 15.01.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: antibiotic resistance; Antibiotics; Antimicrobial agents; antimicrobial susceptibility testing; Automation; Bacteria; Drug resistance; Keywords; Medical Subject Headings-MeSH; molecular methods; MRSA; Nosocomial infections; Pathogens; Penicillin; Pneumonia; Point of care testing; rapid detection; Reproducibility; Review; Staphylococcus aureus; Staphylococcus infections; Vocabularies & taxonomies; molecular methods; antimicrobial susceptibility testing; phenotypic methods; antimicrobial stewardship; antibiotic resistance; resistance detection; MRSA; point of care; rapid detection; Staphylococcus aureus

Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunistic pathogen responsible for a wide range of infections in humans, such as skin and soft tissue infections, pneumonia, food poisoning or sepsis. Historically, S. aureus was able to rapidly adapt to anti-staphylococcal antibiotics and become resistant to several...