Are Active Microbiological Surveillance and Subsequent Isolation Needed to Prevent the Spread of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus? | Zendy

S. Nijssen | Zendy; Marc J. M. Bonten | Zendy; Robert A. Weinstein | Zendy

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Are Active Microbiological Surveillance and Subsequent Isolation Needed to Prevent the Spread of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus?

Author(s) -

S. Nijssen,

Marc J. M. Bonten,

Robert A. Weinstein

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/427281

Subject(s) - medicine , infection control , staphylococcus aureus , genotyping , methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus , intensive care unit , micrococcaceae , isolation (microbiology) , meticillin , microbiology and biotechnology , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , antibacterial agent , antibiotics , bacteria , genotype , biochemistry , genetics , gene , biology , chemistry

Infection-control strategies usually combine several interventions. The relative value of individual interventions, however, is rarely determined. We assessed the effect of daily microbiological surveillance alone (e.g., without report of culture results or isolating colonized patients) as an infection-control measure on the spread of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) in a medical intensive care unit (MICU).

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