An outbreak of non-typeable MRSA within a residential care facility.
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.
Fanoy
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Municipal Health Service Midden-Nederland, Department of infectious diseases, Zeist, the Netherlands. efanoy@ggdmn.nl
Helmhout
L C
LC
van der Vaart
W L
WL
Weijdema
K
K
van Santen-Verheuvel
M G
MG
Thijsen
S F
SF
de Neeling
A J
AJ
van Wamel
W J
WJ
Manaskova
S H
SH
Kingma-Thijssen
J L
JL
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*