High prevalence of multidrug-resistance and toxin-encoding genes in staphylococcus aureus isolated from children attending the emergency department of a university hospital in southern Brazil
Staphylococcus aureus can be found as a member of human microbiota, but it is also a successful pathogen capable of causing a wide variety of infections. Herein, the prevalence of colonization by S. aureus in children attended in a university hospital was investigated. Furthermore, phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of the bacterial isolates were analyzed. S. aureus isolates were characterized according to their antimicrobial susceptibility, presence of mecA and three virulence-encoding genes. SCCmec typing and genetic relatedness of methicillin-resistant S.