Research letters

Gadepalli R, Dhawan B, Kapil A, Sreenivas V, Jais M, Gaind R, et al. Clinical and molecular characteristics of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue isolates from three Indian hospitals. J Hosp Infect. 2009;73:253–63.

Senthilkumar K, Biswal N, Sistla S. Risk factors associated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in children. Indian Pediatr. 2015;52:31–3.

Eshwara VK, Munim F, Tellapragada C, Kamath A, Varma M, Lewis LE, et al. Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in an Indian tertiary care hospital: Observational study on clinical epidemiology, resistance characteristics, and carriage of the Panton-Valentine leukocidin gene. Int J Infect Dis. 2013;17:e1051–5.

Klevens RM, Morrison MA, Nadle J, Petit S, Gershman K, Ray S, et al. Invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus infections in the United States. JAMA. 2007;298:1763–71.

Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (2008). Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing; Eighteenth Informational Supplement. CLSI document M100-S18. Wayne PA: Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute.

Indian Network for Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (INSAR) Group; Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in India: prevalence and susceptibility pattern. Indian J Med Res. 2013;137:363–9.

Shenoy MS, Bhat GK, Kishore A, Hassan MK. Significance of MRSA strains in community associated skin and soft tissue infections. Indian J Medical Microbiol. 2010;28:152–4.