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Usefulness of Weekly Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Screening

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Raouchan Rymzhanova,
Michelle Thouverez,
Daniel Talon and
Xavier Bertrand
Raouchan Rymzhanova
Affiliation:
Service d'Hygiène hospitalière et d'Epidémiologie moléculaire, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Besançon, Université de Franche-Comté, France
Michelle Thouverez
Affiliation:
Service d'Hygiène hospitalière et d'Epidémiologie moléculaire, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Besançon, Université de Franche-Comté, France
Daniel Talon
Affiliation:
Service d'Hygiène hospitalière et d'Epidémiologie moléculaire, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Besançon, Université de Franche-Comté, France
Xavier Bertrand*
Affiliation:
Service d'Hygiène hospitalière et d'Epidémiologie moléculaire, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Besançon, Université de Franche-Comté, France
*
Service d'Hygiène hospitalière et d'Épidémiologie moléculaire, CHU Besançon, 25030 Besançon, France (xavier.bertrand@univ-fcomte.fr)
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Abstract

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.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 11 , November 2009, pp. 1113 - 1115
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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