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Love Korean food? Do you study and practice cooking traditional Korean dishes at home? Well, now is your chance to showcase your culinary talents to the world! Get ready for the Taste of Korea K-Cuisine Contest! The preliminaries will take … Continue reading
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Korean Street Pub Food! : KTOWN EATS
Ddong Ggo Pocha is a hidden eating and drinking spot in Koreatown, modeled after its more traditional counterparts in Korea. Pocha is short for Pojangmacha which literally translates to "street food" or "street stall", where work weary pedestrians can stop for a … Continue reading
Let's Eat Korean Pizza! : Ktown Eats
Pizza. It's a beloved food around the world which can inspire friendly arguments about which shop sells the most "authentic" or the most traditional style, but we decided to try some of the most innovative pizza creations we've ever seen! … Continue reading
KBBQ at Yang San Bak! : KTOWN EATS
Sorry for the short hiatus…we were in the process of moving, and trying to do videos in the middle of it was a no-go…but, we're back again! And to kick things off, we visited the very tasty Korean Barbecue spot, … Continue reading
Korean Bar Food! : KTOWN EATS
This time on Ktown Eats, we visited one of our favorite drinking spots, Teum Pocha! This gem is located in a small strip mall off of 8th street and Oxford, but don't let the outside fool you! Inside, the atmosphere … Continue reading
Nutty Nomads vs. The Ktown Spicy Challenge! : KTOWN EATS
We love eating…and if you follow our Instagram, it's full of pictures from our various food adventures! Anyway, we were invited to Yup Dduk in Los Angeles to take the #KtownSpicyChallenge! Now, we love tteokbokki (Korean rice cake snack), but … Continue reading
Conquer Your Sweet Tooth at CottonHi! : KTOWN EATS
We thought we knew ice cream, but it appears that our expectations were put to the test when we went to try this spot! This time on #KtownEats, we visit the appropriately named dessert destination, CottonHi! Here, they have mixed … Continue reading
Bulgogi House Grand Opening in La Palma!
We really like covering Kpop events in and around LA, but sometimes, we also get the chance to cover delicious events like the Grand Opening of the hottest new Korean restaurant in La Palma, CA, Bulgogi House! When we arrived … Continue reading
Haunted Night Markets! Ready for a Deliciously Scary Halloween?
Want to celebrate Halloween, but also have the chance to try delicious foods and shop all night long?? Check out these two events happening in Los Angeles and get your Halloween grub on! Haunted MPK Night Market: October 17th … Continue reading
[Event] Ktown Night Market Returns This Weekend!
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I just recently returned from a midweek mini-vacation spent with "the Game Girls," a group of women I've been hanging out with for many years. Once a month we get together for lunch at someone's house and then spend the afternoon playing games. This can range from card games to word games, the two newest favorites being Farkle and a card game called Golf Ten.
We soon realized that we needed to enjoy more of a good thing and so started doing a yearly weekend getaway in April, which we dubbed "Enchanted April," naming it after that classic chick flick with Josie Lawrence and Joan Plowright. We've been doing this for about ten years now and we've been to a lot of wonderful places: Whidbey Island, Portland Oregon, and Granville Island in Vancouver, to name a few. We even took a weekend cruise from Seattle to Victoria one year. This year we were on the Oregon Coast. For the most part the weather cooperated, but even if it hadn't we'd have had a great time. (You don't need good weather to stay up until two in the morning laughing and playing games.)
We have several gourmet cooks in our group so the food was spectacular. And the treats were, too. Trader Joe's dark chocolate caramels - oh, chocolate heaven.
But really, the best part of the trip was being able to share our joys and troubles, to be able to be ourselves and know that whether we were at our best or worst we were still loved. Because we've long since gone from friendship to sisterhood.
How about you? Do you have a special group of friends you hang out with? I hope so, because I'm convinced that friends are one of God's greatest blessings.

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FEFCO awards corrugated industry suppliers in Barcelona
BRUSSELS, (Press Release) -Some of today's most exciting corrugated suppliers' new ideas were rewarded with prizes at the Technical Seminar in Barcelona, hosted by FEFCO, the European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers. Innovative concepts in digital printing, box making, and workplace safety were awarded coveted trophies on Friday, October 30, at the end of the three-day FEFCO event.
At Friday's closing ceremony, the FEFCO Production Committee, the competent authority in FEFCO, awarded prizes in four categories: Best Innovation, Most Inspired New FEFCO Sympathiser Member, Health and Safety and Best Presentation.
FEFCO Secretary General Angelika Christ pointed out that the awards looked at new developments within specific areas including raw materials, corrugator machinery, printing techniques, process control systems, energy saving potentials as well as environmental issues. "Who of you in the industry does not believe in the perfect box?" she asked.
The most prestigious FEFCO prize was for Best Innovation, for which there were gold, silver and bronze awards.
Gold Award: Jakob Bovin, Bobst Mex, for his presentation, "The Digital Print Revolution". Speaking without notes, Jakob Bovin charmed audiences with his explanation of the forthcoming digital printing revolution and how it would impact the converting processes.
Silver Award: Olof Ronquist from EMBA Machinery, for his presentation "The Perfect Box", EMBA new technology is offering improved feeding, Non-Crush ConvertingTM, Liquid CreaserTM, providing less cracking and better folding. All these combined give the perfect box!
Bronze Award: Wolfram Verwüster, Durst Group, for his presentation "Durst Water Technology - Corrugated Digital Printing Machine" presenting water-based inks that go away from UV and generates truly green print results.
Most Inspired new FEFCO member: Astrid Odeberg Glasenapp from Innventia won the prize for her presentation "Leading in corrugated board research" and the positive contribution in research for the industry.
Best Presentation: Once again, this award was won by Göpfert company: Ralf Schiffmann and Markus Haupt collected the award for their presentation, "WellenWerk journal - News from Go?pfert".
Health and Safety: This special prize was exceptionally awarded to Stefan Buchner from Smurfit Kappa, Germany not for a spotlight but to honor his outstanding speech "Safety 4.0, Our Goal, Our Inspiration" that will help the industry improve its safety performances.
FEFCO (European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers) was established in 1952 and represents the interests of the European Corrugated Board Manufacturers. Headquartered in Brussels, FEFCO has 24 active members, all European national corrugated packaging organisations. The role of the Federation is to investigate economic, financial, technical and marketing issues of interest to the corrugated packaging Industry, to analyse all factors which may influence the industry, and to promote and develop its image.


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Pop in to Sullivan's for a warm welcome, a glass of wine or cold beer and a pretzel, read the newspapers listen to good music and unwind.
Experience an evening at Sullivan's. The lights go down, the candles are lit, the music plays and the ambiance and atmosphere is excellent.
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- Wednesday, 3 October, 2018 – 6pm
From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. The universe's most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race.


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Two recent studies show a proposed casino in Linn County could hurt other casinos in Iowa.
KWWL reports Union Gaming Analytics released a study predicting how the proposed Cedar Rapids casino would impact other casinos in Iowa.
The group concluded there are no underserved counties in Iowa when it comes to gaming. It also found the proposed casino would take more than $10.9 million away from the Meskwaki casino.
Riverside, the Isle in Waterloo, Diamond Jo, and Mystique casinos would also lose revenue.
Union Gaming Analytics recommends the state refrain from additional casino licenses at this time.
The second study released Tuesday, from Marquette Advisors, predicts Riverside could also lose millions of dollars in revenue if the Cedar Rapids casino is built.
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Is anybody interested in redoing some of the original liveries (real ones)?
By redoing i mean recreating them at a higher resolution.
I am interested mostly in group C cars and GT1s.
If this has been done before please excuse me not knowing about it. Also, if there was a similar thing done for PC1, please point me in the right direction.


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With each new iPhone that Apple releases the number of people who complain that their older iPhones slow down to a snail's pace just seems to continually grow.
Just looking at the most recent data in the time between the release of the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X there has been a 50% increase in the amount of Google searches for "iPhone slow." This can't be a coincidence. Can it?


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Anyone who's ever wanted to see a movie in which Heather Graham and Bridget Moynahan make-out have finally gotten their wish thanks to Sue Kramer's directorial debut Gray Matters. It's a romantic comedy in which Graham plays Gray, a quirky New York woman whose close relationship with her brother Sam (Tom Cavanagh) causes trouble when they both meet and fall for the beautiful Charlie (Moynahan), forcing Gray to question her own sexuality.
"I liked the idea of having a traditional romantic comedy with an homage to '40s musicals," Graham told ComingSoon.net when asked why she decided to play a confused lesbian in Kramer's rom-com. "It's a very traditional storytelling method and then to put this more modern twist into it, I liked the mixture of those two things and then the end message of celebrating who you are and be yourself."
"I had been looking for a romantic comedy for quite some time," Moynahan concurred. "I really thought this was more of an ensemble situation even though it's [Heather's] story, but there's a lot of supporting cast, so it wasn't such a big deal for me. I felt like the script was more intelligent and had a more interesting edge to it then the ones I'd been reading."
"I can remember that my favorite screwball comedy is 'His Girl Friday'" writer/director Sue Kramer mused to us when asked about the film's influences. "Definitely, the Preston Sturges of the world and those directors are people that I definitely wanted to pay homage to or walk very far, miles away, in their footsteps. Those are the movies that I loved and I also love Stanley Donen, in terms of the choreography and the musicals and dance sequences, and Billy Wilder and William Wyler, those are my heroes."
Of course, whenever you set a romantic comedy in New York City, someone will invoke the name of Woody Allen, but for Kramer, that wasn't as conscious an influence as some might think. "There was never a moment when I was writing the script, which is very much the movie, that I was thinking 'I really want this to be Woody or I really want this to be a Nora Ephron movie or be His Girl Friday'," she said. "It's more that you grow up in a culture, and as an artist, you're influenced by people constantly, whether you're a painter or a writer or a director. I think all of these people are my influences, even subconsciously, but there's nothing consciously that I wanted the banter to be like 'His Girl Friday.' It's just that I've written very bantery dialogue in all the screenplays I've written prior to this. I love New York and I'm a New York filmmaker. I see New York as a jewelbox, I really do, and I love those Woody movies that make you think, 'I love living in New York.' It's more about being influenced through my whole life from those people."
Being a romantic comedy, the thing that most people–mainly guys–will remember from it is the film's big moment in which the two actresses first kiss, so we asked them how they prepared for that pivotal scene.
"Bridget was a little nervous because I kept being so excited about it," Graham said with a smile. "She was a little creeped out. I kept trying to get a rehearsal in with Bridget for that but she just wasn't into it."
"Sue doesn't believe in one takes, so we did a lot of takes," Moynahan remembered. "You know how it is when you have that first kiss with that person, whether it's an actor or not? You clunk teeth."
"We didn't clunk teeth!" Graham said in defense. "We were laughing. We were giggling too much. She was mad because we were giggling. There was an X-rated version. We kept going on and then there was an X-rated love scene but they cut that out."
"It was fine, it was fun," Moynahan added casually. "I mean I don't get freaked out about kisses."
Graham was pretty excited to learn that their kiss had already made it onto YouTube, joking, "We don't care about anything else. We just want to be on YouTube, it's more important than the film. We've already made it!"
Although the movie is about the relationship between the three main characters, there are a few fun supporting characters, the most surprising one being a psychiatrist played by Sissy Spacek, who does a surprising amount of physical comedy and even a bit of stunt work! Kramer told us how that odd bit of casting came about. "Sissy and I have been dear friends, we met in this crazy circumstance about ten years ago. We started working on a project that we were trying to develop together that she was going to direct, a book adaptation. Knowing Sissy as personally as I do, she has this amazing sense of humor. People don't really think of her for comedies, because she's this amazing dramatic actress, but she's so funny in person that I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great for me to write something for Sissy that people can see how funny she is?' I wrote the role specifically for her and was lucky enough for her to say she would do it. That was a great calling card, because people love and admire Sissy so much that other actors really wanted to come on board or read the script or meet me. Her stunts She's the greatest trooper in the world. We had a major stuntwoman dressed in her exact clothes, perfectly ready to go for that rock-climbing day and she would not let them do it. She did the fall herself, she did all the climbing herself. She got in shape beforehand and training on a rock-climbing gym, which she'd never done in her life. She really trained for the part and wanted to do it all by herself. Of course, my producing partners were going, 'If Sissy Spacek gets hurt on this movie, we're going to get killed. Are you sure you're going to let her do this?'" And she did it, a couple times actually."
Moynahan and Graham also told us why they've decided to do more independent films in recent years.
"It's funny for me because I could never get an independent film prior to doing 'I Robot.'" Moynahan said. "I was excited to finally being accepted in that world, so if they wanted me I'd be like 'great.' But in the independent world, you tend to get a little bit more interesting material, and more likely to end up straight-to-video, but it gives you a little bit more opportunity to explore yourself and in the character than perhaps in some of the bigger films where most likely you're supporting a bigger cast or bigger male lead."
"Yes, I think I really like to do independent films," Graham agreed. "I think that a lot of times, they take more chances and do things more uniquely and not as formulaic. I think there are really great studio movies but they're harder to find. I just love going to see them. I have gotten into developing material, because I think that there's not a lot of female perspective in cinema. There definitely is some but there should be more, and as an audience member I want that, not only as an actress. For the past 5 years I've been doing it and I have 3 things that I want to do. Hopefully 2 this year and 1 next year."
Moynahan, who has been appearing on the ABC drama "Six Degrees" also thinks that television shouldn't be ruled out as an option for actresses. "I see so many great actresses moving into TV. I just saw that Jennifer Jason Leigh is doing a pilot, Glenn Close, Sally Field. I think you're getting material on a weekly basis that's pushing you and challenging you, and you're getting some of the great writers from the films who are going into television and have more control. I think more and more actresses are going in that direction but the kind of material that they're probably gravitating to doesn't stay on the air so…"
Oh, that Bridget Moynahan, always looking at the glass as half-empty. Regardless, her new movie with Graham, Gray Matters, is now playing in select cities.


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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – CBS 11 News has learned new details about the investigation into the death of a lioness at the Dallas Zoo.
The story has people asking questions, but it will be up to zoo officials to answer those questions.
As it stands, no state or federal agency is expected to investigate the incident, because the death didn't involve an endangered species, a crime, or a communicable disease.
At an animal sanctuary north of Dallas, though has a lot of interest in finding out what happened.
Things were different at the In-Sync Exotics Wildlife Rescue and Educational Center when the African lion named Khan first met his companion, Sheila. Their keepers said they took things slowly. "We had one hour supervised dates for 30 days, then we let them spend the day together," explained In-Sync founder Vicky Keahey.
Now, staff at In-Sync can hardly imagine the two apart. "They're like husband and wife. I mean that's what we call them – the old married couple."
Social lions — who live together in groups called prides — hunt together, play together, and event protect each other. That's why the killing of the 5-year-old lioness named Johari caught animal experts by surprise.
Dr. Craig Packer with the University of Minnesota said, "That's a very odd thing to do to a member of your own family, particularly in lions."
The Dallas Zoo is investigating the attack.
A necropsy or animal autopsy found that Johari suffocated, after her trachea collapsed. The examination also determined the lioness was in perfect health until her death.
Zoo officials are now interested in learning more about Johari's behavior before the attack by a lion in her own pride.
"They have virtually been together everyday for the last three-and-a-half years," said Dallas Zoo vice president of animal operations Dr. Lynn Kramer. "We see some scuffles and some rough play every once in a while but nothing that escalates like this."
At In-Sync, Keahey likens the mystery to that of humans killing humans. "It's not normal, but it happens," she said. "It was really, really sad. It's a tragedy."
In-Sync Exotics suffered losses recently with the deaths of seven big cats. All of them died from distemper.
The Dallas Zoo, meanwhile, had its two remaining lionesses on display Monday. Officials say they aren't sure when the male lions will return the exhibit.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
Middle School Students, Java, Indonesia
Co-Director for the International Study of School Leadership
University Council for Educational Administration
UCEA Center for the International Study of School Leadership
gathers national and international communities of scholars, practitioners, policy makers and government agencies dedicated to the improvement of schools through school leadership.
Prince of Songkla University
Pattani, Thailand
In collaboration with Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Thailand, Dr. Jeff Brooks and I led a two-day teacher-training workshop focused the integration of multicultural concepts into primary school curricula. Primary school teachers engaged in active learning to experience first hand how the concepts can be used in classroom settings.
On other visits I presented lectures on issues related to qualitative research and academic scholarship.
University of Prishtina, Prishtina Kosovo
University of Haxhi Zeka, Peja Kosovo
Hosted by the University of Haxhi Zeka in Peja, Kosovo and University of Prishtina, in Prishtina, Kosovo, Dr. Jeff Brooks and I led seven teacher and administrator training workshops. Topics were chosen in consultation with University of Pristina faculty and included: (1) action research; (2) teaching methodologies; (3) instructional leadership, and (4) mentoring graduate students. We also met with educational faculty to discuss curriculum development.
Capitol University, Cagayan do Oro, Philippines
Bukidnon State University, Malaybalay, Philippines
Dr. Jeff Brooks and I were hosted by Capitol University in Cagayan de Oro City and Bukidnon State University in Malaybalay, Philippines where we presented a series of lectures on educational leadership and globalization.
London, Leeds, and York, England
Edinburgh, Scotland
I helped organize and lead an abroad class to England and Scotland where we explored issues related to globalization, international information policies and the digital divide.
UIN Walisongo
Semarang, Indonesia
In partnership with the faculty of education at UIN Walisongo, Professor Jeffrey S. Brooks, Imam Taufiq and Agus Mutohar and I led a one year research project focused on private Islamic education and religious extremism. This research was funded by a grant from the Australian Indonesian Centre.
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We already know that Samsung has a certain level of admiration for Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). The South Korean conglomerate has taken everything it's learned as an Apple supplier and redeployed that knowledge in its own Galaxy lineup to much success. There are numerous examples of Samsung carbon copies, and sometimes it copies Apple's mistakes.
Well, there's a new way that Samsung is being like Apple, and it's in a way that's been a great problem for the Mac maker: Samsung now has too much cash.
The best problem to have
Like Apple, much of this increase is related to smartphone sales; the two companies remain the top two vendors in the world. At the end of the first quarter, Samsung was sitting on $40.1 billion in cash and investments, up from $23.4 billion a year ago.
Samsung currently has $11.4 billion in debt on the books, which brings its net cash position down to $28.7 billion. The company has paid down some debt over the past year, but its gross cash position has grown significantly. In fact, Samsung's net cash was just $10.6 billion a year ago, meaning it's nearly tripled that figure.
Apple only recently took on debt, so its net cash position is unchanged.
Since Samsung is one of the most vertically integrated conglomerates in the world, it has much higher capital needs than Apple to build up infrastructure. Even still, the company may be left with a surplus and Samsung investors are bound to start asking for some of that money back in much the way that Apple's investors had been doing until recently. Apple's $100 billion capital return program seems to have satiated its investors for now.
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Decolonization measures, including mupirocin and chlorhexidine, are often prescribed to prevent Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI). The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of high-level mupirocin and chlorhexidine resistance in S. aureus strains recovered from patients with SSTI before and after mupirocin and chlorhexidine administration and to determine whether carriage of a mupirocin- or chlorhexidine-resistant strain at baseline precluded S. aureus eradication. We recruited 1,089 patients with community-onset SSTI with or without S. aureus colonization. In addition to routine care, 483 patients were enrolled in a decolonization trial: 408 received intranasal mupirocin (with or without antimicrobial baths), and 258 performed chlorhexidine body washes. Patients were followed for up to 12 months with repeat colonization cultures. All S. aureus isolates were tested for high-level mupirocin and chlorhexidine resistance. At baseline, 23/1,089 (2.1%) patients carried a mupirocin-resistant S. aureus strain and 10/1,089 (0.9%) patients carried chlorhexidine-resistant S. aureus. Of 4 patients prescribed mupirocin, who carried a mupirocin-resistant S. aureus strain at baseline, 100% remained colonized at 1 month compared to 44% of the 324 patients without mupirocin resistance at baseline (P = 0.041). Of 2 patients prescribed chlorhexidine, who carried a chlorhexidine-resistant S. aureus strain at baseline, 50% remained colonized at 1 month compared to 48% of the 209 patients without chlorhexidine resistance at baseline (P = 1.0). The overall prevalence of mupirocin and chlorhexidine resistance is low in S. aureus isolates recovered from outpatients, but eradication efforts were less successful in patients carrying a mupirocin-resistant S. aureus strain at baseline.
Preventive measures for Staphylococcus aureus infections have been widely implemented in health care settings (1). Specifically, the topical antimicrobial agents mupirocin and chlorhexidine have been prescribed for decades for patients in intensive care units and those undergoing surgery and dialysis as a means to eradicate S. aureus carriage to reduce the risk of nosocomial infections (2–4). During the current epidemic of cutaneous abscesses associated with the emergence of community-associated methicillin-resistant S. aureus (CA-MRSA) strains, these decolonization therapies have been extrapolated to outpatients in an effort to prevent recurrent skin infections (5–9).
S. aureus strains exhibiting resistance to mupirocin and chlorhexidine have been reported. While this phenomenon has been described in both inpatient and outpatient settings for mupirocin, chlorhexidine resistance outside the hospital setting has not been previously studied (10–16). At the population level, widespread use of mupirocin and chlorhexidine has been associated with dramatically increased prevalence of S. aureus strains resistant to mupirocin and chlorhexidine compared to periods of time or geographic regions with limited use of these agents, likely due to the selection of resistant strains (13, 17–20). Alarmingly, routine use of these measures in health care settings has contributed to outbreaks with resistant strains (18, 21). At the individual level, in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis, repeated prophylaxis with mupirocin has been associated with the development of mupirocin resistance in S. aureus (22, 23).
Mupirocin inhibits bacterial isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase, resulting in protein synthesis inhibition (24). S. aureus strains may harbor low-level (MIC = 8 to 256 μg/ml) or high-level (MIC ≥ 512 μg/ml) resistance to mupirocin (25). Low-level mupirocin resistance is the result of an alteration in the isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase gene ileS, a mutation which is typically stable and nontransferrable. As mupirocin is frequently delivered directly to the site of infection as a topical agent, low level resistance is typically not clinically relevant. High-level mupirocin resistance is conferred by the mupA gene, which is carried on a plasmid, enabling the spread of this resistance mechanism. The mupA gene encodes a novel isoleucyl-RNA synthetase which is not inhibited by mupirocin (16, 17, 24, 26–28). The plasmid carrying the mupA gene may also carry resistance determinants to other systemic antimicrobial agents, raising concern that mupirocin use could select not only for mupirocin resistance, but also for increasing antimicrobial resistance overall (10, 15, 16).
Chlorhexidine is a biguanide cationic bactericidal agent which is rapidly taken up by S. aureus (29, 30). At low concentrations, chlorhexidine disrupts the integrity of the cell wall and membranes, resulting in leakage of the intracellular contents. At high concentrations, chlorhexidine causes coagulation of the intracellular contents. Chlorhexidine resistance is conferred by the plasmid-mediated qacA/B genes which encode proton-dependent multidrug efflux pumps (13, 30, 31). Some studies have suggested cross-resistance between the qacA/B genes and other systemic antimicrobial agents, as the plasmids may carry multiple determinants of antimicrobial resistance (30–32). Data regarding chlorhexidine resistance in S. aureus isolates recovered from patients in the United States are limited.
We recently performed two decolonization trials for patients with community-onset skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI) which prescribed brief regimens employing mupirocin application to the anterior nares and chlorhexidine body washes (7, 8). In the present study, we aimed to determine the epidemiology of mupirocin and chlorhexidine resistance in contemporary S. aureus isolates recovered from these patients. The primary objective was to measure the prevalence of high-level mupirocin resistance and chlorhexidine resistance in S. aureus isolates recovered from patients with S. aureus colonization and/or SSTI at baseline and after performing decolonization with mupirocin and chlorhexidine. Additionally, we aimed to identify patient-level epidemiologic risk factors and isolate-level features associated with mupirocin and chlorhexidine resistance and to determine whether carrying a mupirocin- or chlorhexidine-resistant strain at baseline resulted in failure of S. aureus eradication.
Setting and study population.This study was approved by the Washington University Institutional Review Board and informed consent was obtained for all study participants. From April 2007 to November 2009, 1,089 patients, 6 months of age and older with community-onset SSTI, were recruited from nine community pediatric practices in metropolitan St. Louis affiliated with a practice-based research network, the St. Louis Children's Hospital (SLCH) Emergency Department (ED) and ambulatory wound center, and the Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH) ED. Colonization cultures to detect S. aureus carriage were obtained from the anterior nares, axillae, and inguinal folds. Isolates associated with clinical infection were obtained from the SLCH or BJH clinical microbiology laboratories. A questionnaire was administered to assess health, hygiene, and household factors. Patients with traditional risk factors for health care-associated MRSA infections (e.g., indwelling catheter, percutaneous medical device, receiving dialysis, or residing in a long-term-care facility) were excluded. Each participant had at least one S. aureus isolate available for the analysis of mupirocin and chlorhexidine resistance.
Of the 1,089 patients with community-onset SSTI, 483 with S. aureus colonization were subsequently enrolled into 1 of 2 decolonization trials, described in detail elsewhere (7, 8). Briefly, in the first trial, participants were randomized to 1 of 4 decolonization regimens: (i) hygiene education alone; (ii) hygiene education plus 2% mupirocin ointment applied to the anterior nares twice daily for 5 days; (iii) hygiene education, twice daily application of intranasal mupirocin, and daily body washes with 4% chlorhexidine solution for 5 days; and (iv) hygiene education, twice daily application of intranasal mupirocin, and daily baths in dilute bleach water for 5 days. Longitudinal colonization cultures were collected from the anterior nares, axillae, and inguinal folds of the study participants 1 month and 4 months following decolonization (7). In the second trial, the 5-day decolonization regimen consisted of hygiene education, 2% mupirocin ointment applied to the anterior nares twice daily, and daily body washes with 4% chlorhexidine solution. Patients and their households were randomized to either the index decolonization group, in which only the patient presenting with the skin infection performed the decolonization regimen, or the household decolonization group, in which all household members were asked to perform the decolonization measures. Longitudinal colonization cultures were collected from the anterior nares, axillae, and inguinal folds of the index patients 1, 3, 6, and 12 months following decolonization (8). For both trials, S. aureus eradication was defined as the absence of S. aureus at the 3 sampled body sites.
Laboratory methods.Colonization swabs were placed in tryptic soy broth with 6.5% sodium chloride (BBL; Becton Dickinson, Sparks, MD) and incubated at 35°C overnight. The broth was subsequently plated onto Trypticase soy agar with 5% sheep blood (BBL; Becton Dickinson) for overnight incubation. S. aureus isolates were identified based on colony morphology, Gram stain, results of a rapid latex agglutination test for S. aureus identification (Staphaurex; Remel, Lenexa, KS), and catalase activity. Disk diffusion testing on Mueller-Hinton agar (BBL; Becton Dickinson) was performed to detect resistance to cefoxitin (as an indicator of methicillin resistance), clindamycin, erythromycin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, ciprofloxacin, rifampin, and tetracycline according to Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute guidelines (25). Inducible clindamycin resistance was detected by the double-disk approximation "D test" (25, 33); for the final analysis, strains which possessed inducible clindamycin resistance were considered resistant to clindamycin. All S. aureus isolates were frozen in glycerol for future analyses.
Genomic DNA extraction.Total DNA extraction was performed using either the BiOstic bacteremia DNA kit (MoBio Laboratories, Carlsbad, CA) or the GeneOhm lysis kit (Becton Dickinson) according to the manufacturers' directions. An analysis of the two DNA extraction methods for downstream PCRs found the methods to be comparable (not shown).
Detection of high-level mupirocin resistance.A real-time PCR assay detecting a 124-bp portion of mupA was used to detect high-level mupirocin resistance using established primers (34). Briefly, 50 to 100 ng of DNA was added to a reaction mix containing 1× iQ SYBR green Supermix (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA), 200 nM (each) primers Mup-F and Mup-R (Table 1) (34), and molecular-grade water to a final reaction volume of 25 μl. PCR was performed using the Cepheid SmartCycler, with an initial cycle of 95°C for 120 s, followed by 35 cycles of 95°C for 10 s (optics off), 60°C for 15 s (optics on; FCTC25 dye set), and 72°C for 15 s (optics off). A melt curve analysis was then performed from 60 to 95°C, at a rate of 0.2 degrees per second. Samples were considered positive if they had a threshold cycle (CT) of less than 31 cycles and a melting temperature within ±0.5°C of the positive control, S. aureus strain BAA-1708 (80.5°C ± 0.5°C).
Phenotypic MIC testing was performed on a subset of the isolates to validate the molecular assay. Seventy-three mupA negative isolates were phenotypically mupirocin susceptible (MIC ≤ 0.50 μg/ml) by Etest (bioMérieux, St. Louis, MO), suggesting that mechanisms other than mupA were not contributing to phenotypic mupirocin resistance in our population. Ninety-two of the 94 mupA-positive isolates had a mupirocin MIC of ≥1,024 μg/ml. The remaining 2 mupA-positive isolates (recovered from the same participant) had a mupirocin MIC of ≤0.50 (i.e., were phenotypically mupirocin susceptible). For all analyses, these two isolates were considered mupirocin susceptible.
Detection of chlorhexidine resistance.Amplification of the qacA/B genes, the genetic determinants for chlorhexidine resistance, was performed. All strains possessing these genetic determinants were classified as chlorhexidine resistant. PCR of qacA/B was performed using a modification of a previously published assay (31). Briefly, approximately 100 ng of DNA was added to a Ready-To-Go PCR bead (GE Life Sciences), with 2.5 μl of a 2 μM solution of each primer (qacA/B-F and qacA/B-R) (Table 1) and molecular-grade water (added to a final volume of 25 μl) (31). Following an initial denaturation step at 94°C for 10 min, 30 cycles of PCR were performed under the following conditions: 94°C for 30 s, 52°C for 30 s, and 74°C for 30 s. A final elongation step was performed for 10 min at 72°C for an expected amplicon of 321 bp. A positive control (S. aureus strain NB01264) (21) and a negative control (S. aureus ATCC 29213) were included with each PCR run. A second PCR for qacA/B with an alternate genetic target was performed on all isolates that were positive in the first qacA/B PCR, as well as on all isolates that were both mupA positive and qacA/B negative in the first PCR. The PCR and cycling conditions were identical to the initial qacA/B PCR except for the primer sequences (qacA/B-RT-F and qacA/B-RT-R) (Table 1) and an expected amplicon size of 172 bp. All PCR products were resolved and visualized on a 2% agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide.
Molecular typing by rep-PCR.To determine the clonality of the mupirocin- and chlorhexidine-resistant S. aureus strains, molecular typing was performed by repetitive-sequence-based PCR (rep-PCR). DNA amplification was performed using random amplified polymorphic DNA Ready-To-Go RAPD analysis beads (GE Life Sciences, Piscataway, NJ) in a final volume of 25 μl, including ∼100 ng of total genomic DNA and 75 pmol of the primer RW3A (35, 36). Rep-PCR products were resolved using Diversilab DNA chips for the Agilent 2100 (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA). Diversilab Bacterial Barcodes software was used to compare banding patterns and to determine similarity among isolates (bioMérieux Clinical Diagnostics, Marcy I'Etoile, France) (37). Isolates with a similarity index of ≥95% were considered to represent the same strain type.
Genetic analysis of mupA genotype-phenotype discordant strains.Both of the isolates that were mupA positive but phenotypically mupirocin susceptible were from the same patient; these were determined to be identical using rep-PCR. The mupA gene of one of these isolates and the reference isolate S. aureus BAA-1708 were bidirectionally sequenced (Sanger sequencing) using a series of overlapping primers (Table 1) (38). The patient isolate was aligned with the reference isolate using BioEdit software (Ibis Biosciences, Carlsbad, CA) for analysis.
Statistical methods.Statistical analyses were performed with SPSS for Windows 20 (IBM SPSS, Chicago, IL) and SAS version 9.2 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC). Chi-square analysis was performed to compare patient-level and isolate-level factors associated with mupirocin or chlorhexidine resistance. As age was not normally distributed, we calculated median age and compared groups with the Mann-Whitney U test. To evaluate the association between mupirocin or chlorhexidine resistance and strain resistance to other systemic antibiotics, only the baseline wound isolate was included in the analysis. Fisher's exact tests were used to determine whether the proportion of participants who remained colonized at the same sites (or additional sites) at the 1-month follow-up differed between participants colonized at baseline with a mupirocin-resistant strain versus a mupirocin-susceptible strain. Student's t test was used to analyze continuous variables. All tests of significance were two tailed. Odds ratios (OR) were considered significant if the 95% confidence interval (CI) did not include 1. A P value of ≤0.05 was considered significant.
Study population.We enrolled 1,089 patients with community-onset SSTI. Of these patients, 761 (69.9%) had a confirmed S. aureus SSTI plus S. aureus colonization, 191 (17.5%) had S. aureus SSTI without S. aureus colonization, and 137 (12.6%) were colonized with S. aureus, but S. aureus was not recovered from the infecting site. The median age of the study population was 7.3 years (range, 6 months to 70 years). Females comprised 58% of the study population. A large proportion of the participants was African-American (64%) and had government-issued health insurance or no health insurance (70%) (Table 2).
At baseline, 2,425 S. aureus isolates were recovered from the 1,089 participants; 901 (37.2%) isolates were recovered from SSTI and 1,524 (62.8%) were colonizing isolates (Table 2). The majority of isolates (74.5%) were identified as MRSA, while 25.5% were identified as methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA).
Baseline prevalence of and risk factors for mupirocin resistance.At baseline, 23 (2.1%) of the 1,089 participants were colonized and/or infected with a mupirocin-resistant S. aureus strain, yielding 50 mupirocin-resistant isolates among the 2,425 S. aureus isolates tested (2.1%). Epidemiologic risk factors associated with carriage of a mupirocin-resistant strain at baseline included younger age (P = 0.05), systemic antibiotic use in the prior year (P = 0.006), an emergency department or urgent care visit in the prior year (P = 0.04), hospitalization in the prior year (P = 0.02), and having a household contact with an SSTI in the prior year (0.006). Participants with a pet in the household were less likely to carry a mupirocin-resistant S. aureus strain (P = 0.03) (Table 2).
At baseline, there was not a statistically significant difference in mupirocin resistance between strains recovered from infecting sites and strains from colonizing sites or between colonizing strains recovered from the nose, axilla, or inguinal fold (Table 3). Overall, a higher proportion of isolates recovered at longitudinal samplings (31 of 696, 4.5%) were mupirocin resistant compared to those obtained at baseline (50 of 2,425, 2.1%; OR, 2.21; 95% CI, 1.40 to 3.49; P = 0.001).
To evaluate the association between high-level mupirocin resistance and resistance to commonly prescribed systemic antibiotics, we analyzed the baseline infecting isolates recovered from the site of SSTI (n = 901). Isolates resistant to clindamycin were more likely to be resistant to mupirocin (6 of 96, 6.2%) compared to clindamycin-susceptible isolates (10 of 805, 1.2%; P = 0.004) (Table 4).
Baseline prevalence of and risk factor for chlorhexidine resistance.At baseline, 10 (0.9%) of the 1,089 patients carried a chlorhexidine-resistant S. aureus strain, yielding 17 chlorhexidine-resistant isolates of 2,425 total S. aureus isolates (0.7%). Chlorhexidine resistance was not associated with the participant-level epidemiologic risk factors (Table 2). There was not a statistically significant difference in chlorhexidine resistance at baseline between strains recovered from infecting sites and strains from colonizing sites or between sites of colonization from which the strains were obtained (Table 3). Again, overall, a high proportion of isolates recovered at longitudinal samplings (11 of 696, 1.6%) were chlorhexidine resistant compared to those obtained at baseline (17 of 2,425, 0.7%; OR, 2.28; 95% CI, 1.06 to 4.88; P = 0.043). In evaluating the baseline infecting isolate, chlorhexidine resistance was not associated with resistance to other systemic antibiotics (Table 4).
Nine isolates (from 3 participants) were resistant to both mupirocin and chlorhexidine. No predictive factors for this cross-resistance could be identified; these isolates were recovered from a variety of body sites (nasal, axilla, groin, and wound) and exhibited varying susceptibly profiles to systemic antimicrobial agents. Eight of these isolates were identified as MRSA, and one isolate was identified as MSSA.
Longitudinal sampling.Of the 1,089 participants sampled at baseline, 483 were enrolled into one of two decolonization trials. Of these, 408 were assigned mupirocin nasal applications and 258 were assigned chlorhexidine body washes. Of the 483 participants enrolled in a decolonization trial, 404 (83.6%) provided at least 1 follow-up culture.
Seven of 404 (1.7%) patients with culture data carried mupirocin-resistant S. aureus at a longitudinal sampling. Of 75 patients not prescribed mupirocin, 3 (4%) carried mupirocin-resistant S. aureus at baseline; 2 of these patients had follow-up data and 1 patient carried mupirocin-resistant S. aureus during the longitudinal study period (Fig. 1A and Table 5). Of 408 patients receiving mupirocin, 6 (1.5%) carried mupirocin-resistant S. aureus at baseline; of these, 4 of 4 patients with follow-up data carried mupirocin-resistant S. aureus during follow-up. Of patients not carrying mupirocin-resistant S. aureus at baseline, carriage of mupirocin-resistant S. aureus during follow-up occurred in 0 of 64 patients not receiving mupirocin compared to 2 of 334 (0.6%) patients receiving mupirocin (P = 1.0) (Fig. 1A and Table 5).
During the longitudinal study period, 4 of 404 (1.0%) patients with culture data carried chlorhexidine-resistant S. aureus. Of 225 patients not prescribed chlorhexidine, 4 (1.8%) carried chlorhexidine-resistant S. aureus at baseline; 2 of these patients had follow-up data, and 1 patient carried chlorhexidine-resistant S. aureus during the longitudinal study period (Fig. 1B and Table 6). Of 258 patients receiving chlorhexidine, 3 (1.2%) carried chlorhexidine-resistant S. aureus at baseline; of these, 1 of 2 patients with follow-up data carried chlorhexidine-resistant S. aureus. Of patients not carrying chlorhexidine-resistant S. aureus at baseline, carriage of chlorhexidine-resistant S. aureus during follow-up occurred in 0 of 185 patients not receiving chlorhexidine compared to 2 of 215 (0.9%) patients receiving chlorhexidine (P = 0.5) (Fig. 1B and Table 6).
Mupirocin and chlorhexidine resistance and prediction of S. aureus eradication.At the 1-month sampling, of 4 patients prescribed mupirocin, who carried a mupirocin-resistant S. aureus strain at baseline and provided follow-up cultures, 100% remained colonized compared to 44% of the 324 patients without mupirocin resistance at baseline (P = 0.04) (Fig. 2A). In evaluating sites of colonization, 5 of 6 (83%) participants colonized at baseline at one or more sites with a mupirocin-resistant strain remained colonized at the same or additional sites at the 1-month follow-up sampling, while only 83 of 384 (22%) participants colonized at baseline with only mupirocin-susceptible strains remained colonized at the same site(s) at 1 month (P = 0.003). Of the 2 patients prescribed chlorhexidine, who carried a chlorhexidine-resistant S. aureus strain at baseline and provided follow-up cultures, 50% remained colonized at 1 month compared to 48% of the 209 patients without chlorhexidine resistance at baseline (P = 1.0) (Fig. 2B).
Diversity of resistant strains.To determine whether all of the mupirocin-resistant or chlorhexidine-resistant strains represented a single S. aureus clone, rep-PCR was performed on all mupirocin- and chlorhexidine-resistant isolates. These isolates were not clonal; among 113 isolates, 16 distinct strain types were detected.
Sequence of strains possessing mupA demonstrating phenotypic susceptibility.Two S. aureus isolates recovered from the same participant were genotypically mupirocin resistant (i.e., possessed the mupA gene) but were phenotypically mupirocin susceptible as determined by Etest, with a mupirocin MIC of ≤0.50 μg/ml. The mupA gene was sequenced from one of the strains recovered from the participant concomitantly with a mupirocin-resistant reference strain possessing the mupA gene (S. aureus ATCC BAA-1708). When the sequences from the two isolates were aligned, no variants were detected within the mupA-coding region of the phenotype-genotype discordant isolate.
Community-onset S. aureus SSTI are a significant public health burden. The incidence of recurrent SSTI has been reported to be as high as 50% over 1 year (8). Thus, many health care practitioners prescribe decolonization measures, especially mupirocin and chlorhexidine, in an effort to prevent recurrent staphylococcal disease (5). Of concern is the potential for increasing prevalence of S. aureus strains resistant to these antimicrobial agents with widespread use, which has been reported in countries outside the United States (19, 21). Thus, it is important to be aware of the prevalence of S. aureus strains encoding resistance to these measures, risk factors associated with resistance, and the clinical significance of resistant S. aureus strains.
In our study population of healthy adults and children presenting to Emergency Departments and ambulatory centers, the prevalence of infection and/or colonization with S. aureus strains exhibiting high-level mupirocin resistance at baseline was very low (2.1%) and, over the course of the whole study, remained low (2.3%). Interestingly, in a prior prevalence survey of mupirocin resistance in MRSA colonization strains recovered from patients in an adult surgical intensive care unit at our medical center (Barnes-Jewish Hospital), 8.6% (26 of 302) of isolates exhibited high-level resistance to mupirocin despite relatively infrequent in-hospital mupirocin use (6.08 treatment days per 1,000 patient days) (12). A nationwide study of hospitalized patients in the United States found that less than 5% of MRSA isolates recovered from the nares and blood exhibited high-level mupirocin resistance (39). Two pediatric studies have previously been conducted evaluating mupirocin resistance in S. aureus isolates. A study by Hogue et al., conducted on a military base, evaluated first-time MRSA isolates recovered from children in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Similar to our study, the investigators detected a low prevalence (1.8% [3 of 167]) of high-level mupirocin-resistant S. aureus isolates from both infecting and colonizing sites (34). A study of pediatric patients with recurrent S. aureus SSTI conducted in Houston, TX, by McNeil et al. determined a relatively high prevalence of mupirocin resistance. Of 68 patients, 12 (18%) were infected with an isolate possessing mupA. Resistance to mupirocin occurred more commonly among S. aureus isolates causing recurrent SSTI (19%) than primary infecting isolates (10%) (15). Prior exposure to mupirocin was unknown in this study.
In our outpatient study population, the prevalence of S. aureus strains possessing the genetic determinants of chlorhexidine resistance was extremely low at 0.9% (1.1% over the entire study period). This phenomenon has not been studied extensively in the United States, and this is the first investigation measuring chlorhexidine resistance in an outpatient population in the United States. In a similar population, a study conducted in the United Kingdom detected no qacA/B genes in CA-MRSA isolates (40). In a study of Canadian intensive care units, only 2% of the MRSA strains possessed the qacA/B genes (29). However, in health care settings in some countries where chlorhexidine use is standard practice, including Brazil, Taiwan, and European countries, the prevalence of the qacA/B genes in S. aureus isolates ranges from 10 to 80% (13, 21, 31, 41–43). As chlorhexidine is a topical antiseptic agent, applied directly to the site of S. aureus colonization and therefore achieving high local concentrations, the clinical significance of in vitro resistance is unclear (3, 21). We do not know the MIC or minimal bactericidal concentration (MBC) of the qacA/B-positive strains in this study. However, Smith et al. (40) correlated higher chlorhexidine MBCs for qacA/B-positive strains compared to negative controls. In addition, several reports raise concern for the presence of S. aureus strains possessing the qacA/B genes in the clinical setting. For example, in one hospital in the United Kingdom, although implementation of a chlorhexidine-based antiseptic protocol in intensive care units led to a reduction in acquisition of strains not carrying the qacA/B genes, this protocol led to increased transmission of an outbreak MRSA strain exhibiting chlorhexidine resistance (21). Therefore, increased prevalence of qacA/B-containing isolates is a potential public health concern. Lee et al. conducted a nested case-control study in Switzerland to investigate the significance of low-level mupirocin and chlorhexidine resistance. This hospital routinely decolonizes patients with MRSA carriage with intranasal mupirocin and chlorhexidine bathing. Culturing of the nares, groin, and other clinically relevant sites revealed a strong association between carriage of MRSA strains encoding low-level mupirocin plus genotypic chlorhexidine resistance and persistent colonization following decolonization measures (13).
In the present study, chlorhexidine resistance at baseline was not associated with persistent S. aureus carriage, possibly due to the low prevalence of these strains in our population. Although the prevalence of mupirocin resistance was low in our population, carriage of a high-level mupirocin-resistant S. aureus strain at baseline did predict decolonization failure. This has similarly been reported in hospital-based studies. In an investigation conducted in Veterans Affairs facilities, patients colonized with high-level mupirocin-resistant MRSA strains were significantly more likely to remain colonized over 4 weeks compared to patients colonized with mupirocin-susceptible MRSA strains (28). Thus, although testing for mupirocin resistance is not routine clinical practice in the United States, the possibility of S. aureus infection and/or colonization with a mupirocin-resistant strain should be considered in individuals in whom decolonization efforts are unsuccessful or in those who develop recurrent S. aureus SSTI following the performance of decolonization with mupirocin.
Another concern surrounding routine topical decolonization is the development of resistance in recolonizing strains (44). Simor et al. conducted a trial that employed a 7-day decolonization regimen with intranasal mupirocin, chlorhexidine body washes, and systemic rifampin and doxycycline for hospitalized patients in Canada with MRSA colonization. The study determined that 5% of patients carrying a mupirocin-susceptible MRSA strain at baseline were colonized with a mupirocin-resistant strain at follow-up (45). In the present study of patients in ambulatory settings, a short-course of decolonization with mupirocin was not associated with the emergence of resistant S. aureus strains. Similar findings were reported from a military study comparing the application of intranasal mupirocin to placebo for 5 days. Of 199 CA-MRSA isolates tested, no mupirocin resistance was detected, suggesting that resistance is not selected when a limited approach is employed (6).
Determinants of resistance to systemic antibiotics have been associated with mupirocin and chlorhexidine resistance in prior studies, leading to the postulate that factors driving resistance to agents used for decolonization (e.g., increased use) may increase staphylococcal resistance to other antibiotics. In Europe, the prevalence of both mupirocin and chlorhexidine resistance has been reported to be significantly higher in MRSA strains than MSSA strains in hospitalized patients (31, 46). In the United States, a survey of multidrug-resistant MRSA isolates, defined as resistance to ≥3 classes of non-beta-lactam antibiotics, found that 6.8% of 191 such isolates carried the mupA gene compared with none of the 130 non-multidrug-resistant isolates (10). In the study of pediatric patients by McNeil et al., one-third of the S. aureus isolates possessing the mupA gene were also clindamycin resistant (15). This association was also observed in our study population, in which clindamycin-resistant S. aureus strains were more likely to also be resistant to mupirocin.
High-level mupirocin resistance is encoded by the mupA gene. In our population, two S. aureus isolates, recovered from the same patient, possessed the mupA gene but were phenotypically mupirocin susceptible. This discordance in genotypic and phenotypic resistance has been reported by others as well (38). In a survey of mupirocin susceptibility by Driscoll et al., one strain testing positive for the mupA gene by PCR was demonstrated to be mupirocin susceptible by broth microdilution. Sequencing of mupA revealed a single-base-pair deletion, resulting in a frameshift mutation and, ultimately, a truncated protein which did not confer mupirocin resistance (38). In the present study, mupA in our discordant strain was also sequenced, but when aligned with the control strain, no mutations were detected within the mupA coding sequence. This suggests the possibility that an alternative mutation exists within the promoter region or other regulatory element, resulting in disparate results between genotypic and phenotypic testing. Evaluation of other genetic factors contributing to this scenario could be the focus of future investigations. This finding does raise a point of caution that studies relying solely on genotypic detection of high-level mupirocin resistance may overestimate prevalence.
This study has several limitations. Although this study tested an enormous number of isolates, the number of S. aureus isolates that were resistant to mupirocin or chlorhexidine was small, and thus we may not have been able to detect associations between resistance to these agents and other patient- and isolate-level risk factors. In addition, use of mupirocin and/or chlorhexidine by study participants prior to the baseline sampling is unknown. Although the low prevalence of mupirocin- and chlorhexidine-resistant S. aureus strains is clinically relevant to practitioners, these findings may not be applicable to geographic areas outside metropolitan St. Louis.
The genes conferring high-level mupirocin resistance and resistance to chlorhexidine are plasmid borne, permitting facile transmission among S. aureus strains. Although the prevalence of both mupirocin and chlorhexidine resistance in S. aureus isolates was low in our outpatient population, carriage of a mupirocin-resistant strain at baseline precluded eradication efforts, consistent with the findings of other investigators (13, 28). This may be germane for patients experiencing recurrent infections despite performing decolonization measures.
As the contemporary MRSA epidemic persists in the community, and as this clone has recently entered the health care environment (47, 48), the prevalence of strains resistant to these frequently prescribed decolonization measures will likely continue to increase. Thus, ongoing monitoring is needed and practitioners should consider this when prescribing these interventions.
This research was supported by the IDSA/NFID Pfizer Fellowship in Clinical Disease and Medical Scholars Program, National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants UL1-RR024992, KL2-RR024994, and K23-AI091690, grant R01-HS021736 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Washington University Departments of Pediatrics and of Pathology and Immunology, the Children's Discovery Institute, and Pfizer, Inc.
The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Center for Research Resources, the National Institutes of Health, or the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
B. C. Camins receives research support from, serves as a consultant for, and is on the speakers' bureau of Pfizer, Inc. All other authors have no relevant disclosures to report.
We acknowledge Jonathan Edgeworth from Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital for providing a qacA/B-positive strain for use as a control isolate in our study. We appreciate the thoughtful review of the manuscript provided by David Hunstad. We thank the Washington University Pediatric and Adolescent Ambulatory Research Consortium physicians and staff members for assisting in patient recruitment: Blue Fish Pediatrics, Esse Health-Webster Groves, Forest Park Pediatrics, Myrtle Hilliard Davis Comprehensive Health Center, Patients First Pediatrics, Pediatric Healthcare Unlimited, St. Louis Pediatric Practitioners, Southwest Pediatrics, and Tots through Teens Pediatrics.
- Received 7 August 2012.
- Returned for modification 23 September 2012.
- Accepted 5 November 2012.
- Accepted manuscript posted online 12 November 2012.
- Copyright © 2013, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.


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It may be an unlikely place for an art installation, but the columbarium at Chapel of the Chimes currently houses a unique and arresting piece by artist Sonja Meller. Sonic Fruit is a set of music boxes in the shape of golden pears, hanging from a real tree that has been growing deep in the recesses of the mausoleum for years. Visitors can pull the strings hanging from the pears to play Brahms' famous "Lullaby," or "Wiegenlied." They all play at different speeds, so you and your friends can pull them all at once to produce a strange composition of your own. Meller, a native of Austria, says she is fascinated by both the use of sound -- particularly the nondigital -- and the exploration of cultural spaces. The building itself is so vast that visitors require a map to find the installation in the Garden of St. John, but the journey presents an architectural wonder itself. Designed in part by Julia Morgan, the chapel has a rare stillness and serenity. It's a fitting location for a haunting, deranged set of lullabies drifting among the urned remains of the dead that fill the surrounding walls. You can see and hear it for free, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. daily through December 18, at Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Ave., Oakland. Info: 510-839-0088. -- Amrita Sidhu
Sat 12/4
Sink-ing In
Two years and counting
When the name is Kitchen Sink, you should expect a mixed bag, right? This Saturday at Oakland's LoBot Gallery, fans of "The Magazine for People Who Think Too Much" will find out how mixed that bag really is when Kitchen Sink throws itself a Second Anniversary Celebration. The entertainment lineup is as unpredictable as the pages of the waggish mag. On the walls are works by artists from the Liminal/LoBot coterie. On your head, "improvisational haircuts" by KS contributor Jenna Feldman. Care for a canine fashion show or a trading post? You've come to the right place. The musical portion is dominated by Rogue Wave, purveyor of pedal-steel-synth-bass enchantment, but let's not forget everybody's favorite all-male Leonard Cohen chorus, Conspiracy of Beards. The fun begins at 8-ish $7-$20. KitchenSinkMag.com. LoBot lies smack-dab in the middle of red-hot West Oakland at 1800 Campbell St. at West Grand Avenue. -- Kelly Vance
Sat 12/4
After the Craft
Say what you like about the items for sale at the California College of the Arts Holiday Art Fair; just don't say the word "crafts" too loudly, since some students are still smarting from the school's recent name change. Hopefully they've spun their pain into ceramics, textiles, blown glass, paintings, and more that CCA students, alumni, faculty, and staff will be offering. Proceeds from Saturday's sale on the Oakland campus' main walkway (5212 Broadway) go to the artists. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. 510-594-3666. -- Stefanie Kalem
Sat 12/4
Frith Ventures Forth
Guitar guru goes solo at Berk Rep
Fred Frith is the human dynamo of avant-garde guitar. The Yorkshire, England, native, who has played with everyone from Brian Eno to John Zorn to Ikue Mori to Henry Kaiser to the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, and in the process collaborated on upward of four hundred recordings, is now ensconced at Mills College, where he's a guest composer. But he sometimes goes abroad in the night with his axe, on the prowl for strange sounds. This Saturday at Berkeley Rep's Thrust Stage (2025 Addison St., 8 p.m.) is such a time, a benefit for Oakland's Park Day School -- a rare solo performance. Tickets are a quite reasonable $20 (students $12), from ParkDaySchool.org -- Kelly Vance
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We will be knocking on doors to unseat the worst hard right blockers of progressive politics and elect champions of progressive issues. At a local door knocking party you will get trained on how to have effective voter persuasion conversations and start knocking on doors in the area. Remember to wear comfortable clothing and shoes for walking and knocking on doors! RSVP to join the largest grassroots effort in Australia! The host has a little dog who loves cuddles
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Register an Interest or Lien
Liens may be registered against
Each type of lien has legislation that governs the filing in the Registry. Note the conditions that must be met before a lien can be registered.
What you will need
Liens are filed electronically into the Personal Property Registry database through BC OnLine. To file your lien you will need:
- A BC Online account or the services of a title search agent or other service provider to register the lien on your behalf.
- One of the following statements:
Use this statement to register the following types of interests and liens:
- A tax lien on a manufactured home under the Manufactured Home Act
- A security interest under the Personal Property Security Act
- A buyer's interests on purchasing goods, left in the possession of the seller under the Sale of Goods Act
- A deferred tax lien on a manufactured home under the Land Tax Deferment Act
- A notice of marriage or separation agreement affecting a manufactured home under the Family Relations Act
Use this statement to register a garage keeper's lien under the Repairers Lien Act.
Both statements are available through BC Online and may be accessed online or through your service provider.
Where and How to Register
Submit your registration (plus applicable fee) one of the following ways
Submit your request electronically through your BC Online account.
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Basic financing statements can be filed at your local Service BC centre. More complicated transactions may require the assistance of a service provider especially when involving legal documentation.
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Builders' liens: Builders' Liens are filed with the Land Title and Survey Authority of B.C.
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Land tax deferment liens: Land tax deferment liens are filed by the provincial government.
Small claims court judgement: There is no provision in the Personal Property Security Act to file a judgement obtained through small claims court. To act on a judgement to seize and sell personal property, you must contact a bailiff.
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During the next 20 years we want Mayfair & Belgravia to be more active, more open and more integrated, with better streets, greener spaces and enterprising places that appeal to the many, not just the few.
London is an ever-changing city. Always growing. Always evolving. Over the next 20 years it will be home to 10 million people, placing unprecedented demands on our places and communities.
Grosvenor's 20 year vision is of Mayfair & Belgravia evolving together with an ever-changing London: playing a leading role in its remarkable success story, becoming more active, open and integrated.
As long-term stewards, we want to understand how our communities will evolve and to share our long-term thinking with them and others. Retaining the achievements of our first 300 years as custodians and embracing new possibilities. Creating better streets, greener spaces and enterprising places for communities that are physically and digitally connected.
This is a singular vision of the future that can only be realised through collaboration, evolving Mayfair & Belgravia together with many stakeholders. This is a challenge we relish. A challenge that starts now...
Seven bold and ambitious outcomes define our vision for Mayfair & Belgravia in the future.
The timescales for realising different aspects of this vision will vary from one or two to many years. This timeline will evolve as we partner with others and create plans to deliver the vision. You can click on the timeline to learn more about the outcomes and perspectives defining our approach.
We hope this vision and its evidence base can guide, challenge and inspire us. We want to work with our customers, partners and stakeholders to secure the success of Mayfair & Belgravia at the heart of a growing global city.
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In setting down our thinking, we gathered many views through interviews and roundtables with stakeholders and customers. We developed a scenario for London's future to understand the context and our likely future customers. And we commissioned extensive research.
We framed our approach throughout with Grosvenor's 'Living cities' philosophy which sets out the attributes we believe make cities successful. This philosophy supports our business strategy, guiding us to create, invest in and manage properties and places that contribute to the enduring success of cities.
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Bat survey halts £15million leisure complex
PUBLISHED: 09:14 23 January 2014 | UPDATED: 09:28 23 January 2014
Seaton Heights developers are losing £50,000 a month because planners are demanding a bat flight path study
The travel habits of bats have grounded plans for a £15million leisure complex in Seaton.
The hilltop scheme for a boutique hotel, restaurant, spa and gym with 38 luxury rental lodges was due to get under way in April.
But redevelopment of the long-derelict Seaton Heights site has been halted because Natural England says the owners – Lyme Bay Leisure - failed to carry out a survey into bat flight paths over the land.
As a result the widely-supported planning application has been turned down by East Devon District Council's officers under delegated authority.
This week Lyme Bay Leisure chairman Dave Sullivan said he was lobbying councillors and his MP to try to get the decision reversed.
He said they were never asked to provide details of bat migrations across the land and as this could not be monitored until the summer it would put the project back at least six months.
The hold-up was costing the company some £50,000 a month, threatening the viability of the whole scheme and putting more than 100 construction and leisure related jobs in jeopardy.
He said: "We have already completed ecological surveys and addressed wildlife concerns particularly in relation to bats lofting in the derelict hotel. We have agreed with EDDC planners on appropriate bat mitigation measures involving an expensive new building solely for the accommodation of the existing bats.
"This strategy was advised to us by Acorn Ecology and has been supported by all the local bat activists and other nature conservationists.
"However, following formal consultation Natural England has objected on the grounds that we have not studied bat flight paths.
"Had we been asked to do this earlier we would have got on with it and included our response in the application.
"As the bats are now hibernating the studies can only now be undertaken over the summer setting back our build programme by at least six months, but more significantly this is decimating the financial viability of the project. As a small, new business this is a major blow which we may not be able to withstand.
"At no time have we sought to escape our responsibilities to the environment and local ecology. We believe that our scheme fully respects this area of outstanding natural beauty.
"We are not critical of the planning case officer, nor his colleagues, the problem has arisen because of the late intervention of Natural England.
"We are confident that with the right people in a room and the application of commonsense between us we ought to be able to come out with a solution where all sides are satisfied."
Speaking as a resident and local business owner, Seaton town councillor Sharon Bruce described the situation as 'batty'.
She has called on local district councillors to step in and put the project back on track.
She said: "This development is one of the three key brown sites in Seaton that are in desperate need of regeneration.
"They are positioned at the main entrances into Seaton, a gateway town to the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site and an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
"Natural England has objected on the grounds that Lyme Bay Leisure has not studied 'bat flight paths'. Lyme Bay Leisure started their work last June 2013 and consulted with various people and organisations including Seaton Town Council, Seaton residents and experts including Acorn Ecology.
"Natural England only made its objection in November 2013, and with bats in hibernation until April/May 2014, there is no possibility for Lyme Bay Leisure to take further action at this time, if indeed it will actually be asked for, until June at the earliest.
"Lyme Bay Leisure isseeking agreement to itsplanning application in order to proceed with obtaining funding for the development and agree to a further bat survey and appropriate mitigation measures if required.
"Please can I ask us all to consider the economic benefits to Seaton and how we can protect the residents in a fair balance with the care of our environment."
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