Methods The study was conducted in SICU. ASCs were performed from 20 Sep 10 to 28 Feb 11 on all patients admitted/ transferred in/transferred out of SICU. ASC specimens consisted of swabs from anterior nares and axilla/groin. The swabs were inoculated onto chromogenic agar selective for MRSA (MRSASelect, Bio-Rad). MRSA positive patients were placed on contact precautions/isolation. Automatic ha...

The most common pathogens in surgical site infections after total hip and knee arthroplasty are methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA), methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), and coagulase-negative staphylococci. Patients colonized with MSSA or MRSA have an increased risk for a staphylococcal infection at the site of a total hip or knee arthroplasty. Most colonized individuals who ...

2170. Association of Active Surveillance and Decolonization Program on Incidence of Clinical Cultures Growing Staphylococcus aureus in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Annie Voskertchian, MPH1; Ibukunoluwa Akinboyo, MD2; Anna Sick, MPH3; Susan W. Aucott, MD4 and Aaron M. Milstone, MD, MHS, FIDSA, FSHEA; Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, Pediatric Infectiou...

Abstract What does making progress in global justice mean? are the barriers to progress? This article introduces notion of tragic progress, against assertions by International Relations realists that tragedy and mutually exclusive concepts, as a complement notions ‘pragmatic progress’ ‘bounded offered IR constructivists philosophical pragmatists. Tragic refers disruptive often painful process s...