Intermittent colonisation with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcal aureus can be eradicated from the Airways of Adults with Cystic Fibrosis

Lucy Ranzenbacher; Yang Song; Alison Merchant; Peter G Middleton

doi:10.3390/antibiotics8030113

Intermittent colonisation with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcal aureus can be eradicated from the Airways of Adults with Cystic Fibrosis

Antibiotics (Basel). 2019 Aug 9;8(3):113. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics8030113.

Authors

Lucy Ranzenbacher¹, Yang Song^{1

2}, Alison Merchant², Peter G Middleton^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
² CF Research Group, Ludwig Engel Centre for Respiratory Research, Westmead Institute of Medical Research, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
³ Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia. peter.middleton@sydney.edu.au.
⁴ CF Research Group, Ludwig Engel Centre for Respiratory Research, Westmead Institute of Medical Research, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia. peter.middleton@sydney.edu.au.

Abstract

The airways of people with cystic fibrosis (CF) are chronically colonised with different pathogens. With recent interest in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), we have recently examined the rates of MRSA colonisation in different groups within our CF Service. This paper now examines the effectiveness of eradication strategies to clear the MRSA colonisation.

Keywords: MRSA; cystic fibrosis; eradication.