Study the Association of Accessory Gene Regulator Types and Methicillin Resistance/Sensitivity of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated in Gorgan, Iran

Background: In this study, we investigated the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus agr groups to detect the predominant type according tothe source of isolation and assessed the possible relationship between agr groups, types of infection and susceptible or resistance to methicillin.Materials and Methods: DNA of 194 S. aureus isolates were extracted by lysozyme-phenol chloroform method that included 85clinical samples, 58 samples were isolated from nose of health care workers and 51 were obtained from food products in Gorgan, North of Iran. PCRbased assays were used for the identi

کلیدواژه ها:

S. aureus ، agr genes ، PCR