The hospital environment, especially surfaces, represents a secondary reservoir for pathogens such as S. aureus, and represent a challenge to infection control practices in most countries. This study aimed to explore the prevalence of MRSA in hospitals of Benghazi, Libya, Sounding the alarm of the...
Rathel "Skip" Nolan, director of infectious diseases at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and medical director of infection prevention at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, says for people who carry MRSA on their skin yet have no symptoms, it can be hard to understan...
First isolation of MRSA ST398 from UK animals: a new challenge for infection control teams? 来自 国家科技图书文献中心 喜欢 0 阅读量: 35 作者:A Loeffler,AM Kearns,MJ Ellington,LJ Smith,VE Unt,JA Lindsay,DU Pfeiffer,DH Lloyd 摘要: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ST 398 was...
I work in a PICU that will put a MRSA + patient who is on contact isolation in the same room with other patients. So if the others weren't positive before, they will be before they leave. Plus, we culture for MRSA but don't implement contact isolation measures until the result is ba...
Objectives: The presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on meat purchased from retail outlets may allow its spread to households and represents a risk for colonization and possibly infection of consumers. Improved isolation methods have indicated that more than 10% of samples are...
Four64, 65, 66, 68 focused on MRSA patients, one67 on patients affected by Clostridium difficile and their family members’ experiences, and one63 did not specify the infectious agent, but patients were isolated for HAI or community-acquired infection. The included mixed-method studies69, 70,...
Infection disease wards or intensive units with isolates Other suitable departments (area shielded/the building is closed for other patients) Other suitable hospitals in the region. If necessary—a complete hospital, entire nursing home or pre-arranged/requested hotel ...
, the benefit of barrier precautions use among visitors to patients with colonization or infection caused by methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus(MRSA) or vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), both endemic in many healthcare settings, may be limited. Many household contacts of these patients may...
A matched case control study on MRSA urinary tract infection was carried out. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the effect of the use of antibiotics... M Washio,T Mizoue,T Kajioka,... 被引量: 0发表: 1997年 Risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infecti...
When to discontinue contact precautions for patients with MRSA At admission, contact isolation and screening cultures for MDR were conducted. Multidrug-resistant pathogens in hospitalized Syrian children The plan included strict enforcement of infection control measures, including hand hygiene, airborne and ...