Outbreak Column 13: Nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus outbreaks (part 2 – guidelines)
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Common R-plasmids in Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis during a nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus outbreak.
During a 7-month period in 1978 to 1979, 31 patients and personnel at a Kentucky hospital were colonized or infected with a Staphylococcus aureus strain resistant to clindamycin, erythromycin, gentamicin, methicillin, penicillin, and tetracycline. S. epidermidis with similar antibiotic resistance patterns had been isolated in this hospital in the year before the S. aureus outbreak. A 32-megadal...
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Affi liations: From the Division of Clinical Science, St. George’s University of London. Financial/nonfi nancial disclosures: The author has reported to CHEST the following confl icts of interest: Dr Jones has received consulting fees and speakers honoraria from GlaxoSmithKline. Correspondence to: Paul W. Jones, PhD, Division of Clinical Science, St. George’s University of London, Cranmer Terr,...
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Epidemiological findings of a single outbreak event may not be generalized; however, the characteristics of a typical outbreak can be determined on the basis of a large number of similar events. The Outbreak Database ( http://www.outbreak-database.com ) is the largest collection of nosocomial outbreaks currently available-and is still expanding. Articles are filed systematically, enabling those...
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BACKGROUND Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in animals is a rare finding in Sweden. In horses, MRSA was first detected in a screening survey in 2007. In 2008, six clinical cases occurred in an equine hospital, indicating an outbreak. METHOD All MRSA isolates detected, 11 spa-type t011 and one t064 (n = 12), in infected horses (n = 10) and screening of horses (n = 2) in Swede...
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An outbreak of nosocomial infections was caused by a single strain of methicillin-resistant (MR) Staphylococcus aureus. This strain was followed as it was transmitted from the index case to 17 patients, 3 hospital personnel, and 12 items in the hospital environment. The MR S. aureus strain was traced by using four specific epidemiological markers: antibiogram, phage type, production of aminogly...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Infection Prevention
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1757-1774,1757-1782
DOI: 10.1177/1757177414520815