Colonization of Cimex lectularius with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

被引：12

作者：

Barbarin, Alexis M. ^{[1
]}

Hu, Baofeng ^{[3
]}

Nachamkin, Irving ^{[2
]}

Levy, Michael Z. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Penn, Perelman Sch Med, Dept Biostat & Epidemiol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA

[2] Univ Penn, Perelman Sch Med, Dept Pathol & Lab Med, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA

[3] Univ Penn, Perelman Sch Med, Ctr Clin Epidemiol & Biostat, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA

来源：

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY | 2014年 / 16卷 / 05期

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D O I：

10.1111/1462-2920.12384

中图分类号：

Q93 [微生物学];

学科分类号：

071005 ; 100705 ;

摘要：

A recent paper published by Lowe and Romney in Emerging Infectious Diseases titled, Bed bugs as Vectors for Drug-Resistant Bacteria has sparked a renewed interest in bed bug vector potential. We followed a pyrethroid resistant strain of the human bed bug (Cimex lectularius, L.) fed either human blood or human blood with added methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) for 9 days post-feeding. Results indicated that while the bed bug midgut is a hospitable environment for MRSA, the bacteria does not survive longer than 9 days within the midgut. Additionally, MRSA is not amplified within the midgut of the bug as the infection was cleared within 9 days. Due to the weekly feeding behaviours of bed bugs, these results suggest that bed bug transmission of MRSA is highly unlikely.

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页码：1222 / 1224

页数：3

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