title: An outbreak of non-typeable MRSA within a residential care facility.
abstract: In a household setting within a residential care facility for visually and intellectually disabled people, a resident (index case) was diagnosed with dermal abscesses caused by a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) which was non-typeable by standard pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. All residents and staff in contact with the index case (a total of 200 people) were screened for MRSA.
authors.affiliation: Municipal Health Service Midden-Nederland, Department of infectious diseases, Zeist, the Netherlands. efanoy@ggdmn.nl
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fanoy
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Helmhout
authors.forename: W L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: van der Vaart
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Weijdema
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: van Santen-Verheuvel
authors.forename: S F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Thijsen
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: de Neeling
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: van Wamel
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Manaskova
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Kingma-Thijssen
mesh_terms: D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D016106:Methicillin Resistance; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012112:Residential Facilities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*