I did what I could for him with whatever was in the room. At one point when he scheduled for a surgical procedure in interventional radiology, I asked the assistant department head nurse about Chlorhexidine bathing prior to surgical procedures. The nurse I spoke to said “Oh yes, we bath w...
in Fig. 3e). Another 53 isolates only differed by a single SNP from this population, meaning that 78% of isolates from the index case varied by a maximum of two core genome SNPs. All the isolates from the first MRSA-positive swab taken on day 5, were either the predominant genome-type...
Sterile Ames media transport swabs (Medical Wire) were used to sample both anterior nares of staff members and animal patients. The personnel who conducted the swabbing and processing of samples were also swabbed and found to be negative for MRSA. Swabs were then inoculated into 4 ml of Mül...
andtsst-1genes using multiplex polymerase chain reaction. The carriage prevalence ofS. aureuswas 57.9% (n= 117), and that of methicillin-resistantS. aureus(MRSA) was 3.5% (n= 7). Carriage of themecA,pvl, andtsst-1genes were respectively demonstrated in 20.0% (n= 7), 85.7% (n= 30)...