@article {5185,
	title = {Changes in the epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Greek tertiary care hospital, over an 8-year-period.},
	journal = {Int J Antimicrob Agents},
	volume = {21},
	year = {2003},
	month = {2003 Jun},
	pages = {542-6},
	abstract = {A total of 1019 non-replicate, consecutively isolated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains were collected from in-patients of a tertiary care general hospital in Athens, Greece, during the period 1994-2001. The susceptibility, resistance phenotypes and the dissemination of these isolates among hospital wards were studied. Total MRSA and gentamicin-resistant MRSA, as a proportion of the S. aureus isolates, increased from 33 and 9\% in 1994 to 50.1 and 33.3\% in 2001, respectively. Three main multi-resistant phenotypes predominated, representing 50.9\% of the total MRSA isolates in 2001. MRSA strains susceptible to all antibiotics tested decreased to 1.9\% in 1997 and again increased to 13.5\% in 2001. A gradual decrease in the susceptibility of vancomycin during the 8-year-period was detected, but no vancomycin resistant S. aureus strains were isolated.},
	keywords = {Cross Infection, Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial, Gentamicins, Greece, Hospitals, General, Humans, Methicillin, Methicillin Resistance, Microbial Sensitivity Tests, Retrospective Studies, Staphylococcal Infections, Staphylococcus aureus, Vancomycin},
	issn = {0924-8579},
	author = {Pantazatou, Angeliki and Papaparaskevas, Joseph and Stefanou, Ioanna and Papanicolas, John and Demertzi, Elli and Avlamis, Athina}
}
