TY - JOUR
T1 - Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in Ghana
T2 - Past, present, and future
AU - Donkor, Eric S.
AU - Dayie, Nicholas T.K.D.
AU - Tette, Edem M.A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.
PY - 2019/6
Y1 - 2019/6
N2 - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is of serious public health concern due to its extensive antibiotic resistance and association with frequent outbreaks. So far, MRSA has received very little attention in Ghana. In line with recent efforts by the Government of Ghana to improve surveillance of antibiotic resistance, this article reviews the existing literature on MRSA in Ghana with the aim of highlighting its public health significance, identifying relevant areas of research, and how to combat this pathogen. There is a low prevalence of MRSA in Ghana. However, the presence of several epidemic multidrug-resistant clones of MRSA detected in the country poses a potentially serious public health threat. In Ghana, MRSA appears to have evolved from a relatively less-recognized pathogen to an important one, which is partly because of outbreaks of the organism in the last few years. Generally, little is known about the epidemiology of MRSA in Ghana and effective surveillance of the pathogen is required to deal with its emerging public health threat in the country.
AB - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is of serious public health concern due to its extensive antibiotic resistance and association with frequent outbreaks. So far, MRSA has received very little attention in Ghana. In line with recent efforts by the Government of Ghana to improve surveillance of antibiotic resistance, this article reviews the existing literature on MRSA in Ghana with the aim of highlighting its public health significance, identifying relevant areas of research, and how to combat this pathogen. There is a low prevalence of MRSA in Ghana. However, the presence of several epidemic multidrug-resistant clones of MRSA detected in the country poses a potentially serious public health threat. In Ghana, MRSA appears to have evolved from a relatively less-recognized pathogen to an important one, which is partly because of outbreaks of the organism in the last few years. Generally, little is known about the epidemiology of MRSA in Ghana and effective surveillance of the pathogen is required to deal with its emerging public health threat in the country.
KW - Ghana
KW - Staphylococcus aureus
KW - methicillin
KW - resistance
KW - surveillance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85066850342&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1089/mdr.2018.0115
DO - 10.1089/mdr.2018.0115
M3 - Article
C2 - 30625025
AN - SCOPUS:85066850342
SN - 1076-6294
VL - 25
SP - 717
EP - 724
JO - Microbial Drug Resistance
JF - Microbial Drug Resistance
IS - 5
ER -