Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; the role of antisepsis in the control of an outbreak.
Between February 1983 and September 1985, an outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus involving 151 patients and staff occurred in a district general hospital. At its peak, 43 cases occurred in 3 months. Sixty-two patients suffered morbidity and two died. Conventional isolation techniques and once-daily whole body washing of affected patients with triclosan successfully controlled the outbreak.
D000985:Antisepsis / Q000379:methods*; D001494:Baths; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004739:England; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D008712:Methicillin; D010403:Penicillin Resistance; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014260:Triclosan / Q000627:therapeutic use
D014260:Triclosan; D008712:Methicillin