**Meet the editor**

Dr Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro de Souza da Cunha, MD in Science and Technology of the Food (1992), PhD in Tropical Diseases (1998); is biologist with main research interests in Microbiology, focusing on Bacteriology, acting on the following subjects: Staphylococcus aureus, Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci (CoNS), epidemiology, virulence factors, biofilms, enterotoxins and anti-

microbial resistance. She is professor and researcher at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Bioscience Institute, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu, SP, Brazil. Scholarship in Research Productivity of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Professor and mentor master's, doctoral and postdoctoral studies at the graduate program in Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and General Biology and Applied, Biosciences Institute, UNESP, Botucatu, SP, Brazil. She is currently involved in many research projects as a scientific reference in Staphylococcus, many research projects supported for the São Paulo Research Foundation – FAPESP. She is the author of more than 50 papers in international peer reviewed journals and books, and referee for about 10 journals.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Microsatellite Typing of** 

Chapter 2 **Epidemiology of Bloodstream** 

Chapter 3 **Epidemiology of Dermatomycoses** 

**Humans and Animals 51** 

Chapter 5 **MRSA Epidemiology in Animals 79** 

Katarzyna Kalinowska

Chapter 4 **CA-MRSA: Epidemiology of a** 

Chapter 6 **Epidemiological Aspects of** 

**Section 1 Epidemiology of Dermatomycoses** 

**and** *Candida* **spp. Infections 1** 

Birgit Willinger and Walter Buzina

**Catheter-Associated** *Candida albicans* **Strains 3** 

Astrid Helga Paulitsch-Fuchs, Bettina Heiling,

*Candida* **spp. Infections Observed During a Surveillance Study Conducted in Spain 15** 

R. Cisterna, G. Ezpeleta and O. Tellería

**in Poland over the Past Decade 31** 

**Section 2 Epidemiology Molecular of Methicillin-Resistant** 

**Pathogen of a Great Concern 53** 

Patrícia Yoshida Faccioli-Martins and

*Staphylococcus aureus* **(MRSA) Isolated from** 

Mariana Fávero Bonesso, Adilson de Oliveira and Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro de Souza da Cunha

Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro de Souza da Cunha

**Oxacillin-Resistant** *Staphylococcus* **spp.:** 

**The Use of Molecular Tools with Emphasis on MLST 95**  André Martins and Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro de Souza da Cunha
