id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-323463-osf6t7cw Cercenado, Emilia Update on bacterial pathogens: virulence and resistance 2008-04-30 .txt text/plain 15021 679 42 This paper focus on a variety of diseases that pose major clinical and public health challenges today; and include infections produced by community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and S. Although predictions during the 20th century indicated that the incidence of infectious diseases would diminish as a result of improvements in sanitation and by the introduction of many vaccines and antibiotics, at the beginning of the 21st century the rates of infections produced by new pathogens or by reemerging microorganisms possessing new virulence or resistance phenotypes is increasing, threatening the overall human health [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] . It is in this scenario where community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has emerged as the most common pathogen isolated from patients with skin and soft-tissue infections attending to the emergency departments in many United States and Australian cities 8, 9 , and at present, its incidence is increasing in other parts of the world 10, 11 . ./cache/cord-323463-osf6t7cw.txt ./txt/cord-323463-osf6t7cw.txt