(CIDRAP News) – Disinfecting all intensive care unit (ICU) patients was found to be more effective and easier to implement than specifically screening ICU patients for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) before disinfection in a study of more than 70,000 patients published today.
(CIDRAP News) – Test results on a cluster of Alabama patients hospitalized with similar respiratory symptoms indicated no unusual pathogens but instead a variety of common respiratory viruses and bacteria, state health officials announced today.
(CIDRAP News) – The latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest that hospitals have cut their incidence of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in half since 2005, but the decline in community-associated MRSA infections has been far more modest.
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Iwamoto M, Mu Y, Lynfield R, et al. Trends in invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections. Pediatrics 2013 (published online Sep 23)
Advani S, Sengupta A, Milstone AM. Postdischarge surveillance to identify subsequent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in colonized children. Am J Infect Control 2013 (published online Feb 27)
Bessesen MT, Lopez K, Guerin K, et al. Comparison of control strategies for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Am J Infect Control 2013 (published online May 9)
Iacobelli S, Colomb B, Bonsant F, et al. Successful control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit: a retrospective, before-after study. BMC Infect Dis 2013 Sep 22;13:440
Jung WJ, Kang YA, Park MS, et al. Prediction of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in patients with non-nosocomial pneumonia. BMC Infect Dis 2013 Aug 9;13:370
Jurke A, Kock R, Becker K, et al. Reduction of the nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus incidence density by a region-wide search and follow-strategy in forty German hospitals of the EUREGIO, 2009 to 2011. Euro Surveill 2013 Sep 5;18(36):pii=20579
Kabbani D, Weir SK, Berg G, et al. Cohorting based on nasal methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus status: an opportunity to share more than a room. Am J Infect Control 2013 May;41(5):401-4
Kalra L, Camacho F, Whitener CJ, et al. Risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infection in patients with nasal MRSA colonization. Am J Infect Control 2013 (published online Aug 23)
Kohler P, Bregenzer-Witteck A, Rettenmund G, et al. MRSA decolonization: success rate, risk factors for failure and optimal duration of follow-up. Infection 2013 Feb;41(1):33-4
Moxnes JF, de Blasio BF, Leegaard TM, et al. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is increasing in Norway: a time series analysis of reported MRSA and methicillin-sensitive S. aureus cases, 1997-2010. PLoS One 2013 Aug 1;8(8):e70499
Popoola VO, Carroll KC, Ross T, et al. Impact of colonization pressure and strain type on MRSA transmission in children. Clin Infect Dis 2013 (published online Aug 13)
Rinsky JL, Nadimpalli M, Wing S, et al. Livestock-associated methicillin and multidrug resistant Staphylococcus aureus is present among industrial, not antibiotic-free livestock operation workers in North Carolina. PLoS One 2013 Jul 2;8(7):e67641
Spoor LE, McAdam PR, Weinert LA, et al. Livestock origin for a human pandemic clone of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. mBio 2013 Aug 13;4(4):e00356-13
Tadros M, Williams V, Coleman BL, et al. Epidemiology and outcome of pneumonia caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Canadian hospitals. PloS One 2013 (published online Sep 17)
