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The aim of this study was to evaluate a frequency of isolation and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from clinical specimens obtained from patients hospitalized in different hospital wards (SP ZOZ) in Nidzica from 01. 09. 2000 to 31. 12. 2003. During over three years 716 Staphylococcus aureus strains were cultured out of 15517 clinical specimens supplied to the Bacteriological Laboratory of SP ZOZ in Nidzica. S. aureus strains were isolated from 4.6% of examined samples. Samples were collected from patients hospitalized in all wards (five wards). Analysis of susceptibility to antimicrobial agents of identified S. aureus strains was performed. Seventy strains (9.8%) were metihicillin-resistant (MRSA). One hundred twenty four strains (17.3%) revealed inducible resistance to macrolides, linkosamides and streptogramins B (MLS, mechanism). The greatest activity in vitro against clinical S. aureus strains showed glycopeptide antibiotic--vancomycin (100% of susceptible strains). Clinical S. aureus strains isolated from patients of hospital in Nidzica are in the majority susceptible to antibiotics/chemotherapeutics, except of penicillin. Percentage of methicillin-resistant strains (MRSA) is not high (<10). Nevertheless, constant monitoring of a drug susceptibility of nosocomial S. aureus strains is important, considering the necessity of control of current epidemiological and therapeutic situation.

The aim of the present study was the analysis of drug susceptibility of MRSA and MRCNS strains isolated from patients hospitalized in 14 wards of the State Clinical Hospital No 1 in Warsaw. The strains were identified (ID 32 STAPH), and their susceptibility to antimicrobial agents (ATB STAPH) was determined in ATB system (bioMérieux, France). Four methods were applied to confirm the resistance to methicillin: ATB-plus system, disc-diffusion method (Oxa 1 microgram, Oxoid, U.K.), Crystal MRSA ID (Becton Dickinson-BBL, USA) and agar screen test in TSA medium (Difco, USA) with methicillin (25 mg/l, Sigma, USA). 108 Staphylococcus spp. strains were found in 300 clinical specimens. 56 strains were methicillin-resistant (52%). Among methicillin-resistant strains 13 MRSA, 28 MRSE and 15 of other species were found. All MRSA strains were susceptible to vancomycin, teicoplanin and fusidic acid. MRCNS were susceptible first of all to vancomycin (43/43), minocycline (42/43) and pristinamycin (42/43). On the basis of the obtained results it can be stated that methicillin-resistant staphylococci occur in hospital wards. The greatest number of methicillin-resistant strains was cultured from patients hospitalized in surgery wards (32), methicillin-resistant strains much more frequently occur among coagulase-negative staphylococci, especially in Staphylococcus epidermis. Glycopeptide antibiotics are most active against isolated MRSA strains. The most active therapeutic agent against MRCNS is vancomycin.