Usefulness of weekly methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus screening.
We evaluated the usefulness of adding weekly methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) screening to our established admission screening and clinical sampling in 4 acute care units of a university hospital. Our results suggest that weekly MRSA screening allows the detection of 56.1% of all cases of hospital-acquired MRSA carriage. These cases would have remained undetected had admission screening and clinical sampling been the only types of surveillance in place.
Service d'Hygiène hospitalière et d'Epidémiologie moléculaire, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Besançon, Université de Franche-Comté, France.
Raouchan
R
Rymzhanova
Michelle
M
Thouverez
Daniel
D
Talon
Xavier
X
Bertrand
D000328:Adult; D002353:Carrier State / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D055624:Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D013997:Time Factors