Objectives: Determine the rate of antibiotic resistance and ratio of the mecA gene of S. aureus isolated from septicemia patients. Subjects: 43 S. aureus strains were isolated from septicemia patients in NHTD and Military Hospital No.103 during period of December, 2012 to June, 2014. Methods: Cross - sectional descriptive study (see again). Results and conclusions: Level of antibiotic resistance: 53.49 percent MRSA strains
the highest resistance was to penicillin, accounting for 100 percent, followed by erythromycin (65.12 percent) and clindamycin 60.47 percent. quinolone group was highly sensitive: ciprofloxacin 83.72 percent
levofloxacin 86.05 percent and moxifloxacin 86.05 percent. Some antibiotics were completely sensitive (100 percent), include: Vancomycin, tigecycline, linezolid, quinupristinjdalfopristin. By comparison of the antibiotic resistance between MRSA and MSSA group shown that: the rate resistance of MRSA group to clindamycin, erythromycin, tetracycline, levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, moxifloxacin was higher than MSSA group, with p 0.05. In addition, there were 25 Staphylococcus aureus strains (58.14 percent) possessed mecA gene
and 22 of 23 MRSA strains (95.65 percent) showed to be having mecA gene
only 15 percent strains in MSSA group also possessed this gene.