International Journal of Zoology and Applied Biosciences
Volume (1) - Issue (5), 2016 pp 240-243
Title
Alarming carrier status of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among adolescent learners-prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility of the organism
Author
Nambirajan, G., Panneer Selvam, K., Shobana, C.S. Vijayakumar, R. and Manikandan, P.
Abstract
Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a well established bacterial pathogen of human beings and is reported as a cause of a number of common diseases both in developed and developing countries. Against the fact that the disease burden is moving in logarithmic phase across the globe, the carriage of MRSA (carrier status) by healthy persons further aggrandizes the issue. In this background, a study has been carried out so as to bring out the real-time carrier status (prevalence) of Staphylococcus aureus and MRSA especially among adolescent healthy learners of higher education in the region. The antibiotypes by standard antibiotic susceptibility tests also have been ascertained. The study concluded that while a total of 43.94% (n= 272) S. aureus of the study was found to be carried by healthy adolescent persons, a total of 20.22% (55 of 272) them was determined to be oxacillin resistant – MRSA. Conclusively, the prevalence of carriage of S. aureus and MRSA is alarming among the target group.
Keywords
Carrier, S. aureus, MRSA, Resistance, Prevalence, Antibiotypes.
Article History
Received on 11/10/2016, Accepted on 26/10/2016, Published on 31/10/2016
