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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a ten-year survey in a Dublin hospital
- Source :
- Journal of Hospital Infection. 14:357-362
- Publication Year :
- 1989
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1989.
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Abstract
- We undertook a retrospective, longitudinal survey to monitor the changing incidence, phage types and patterns of antibiotic resistance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in St Laurence's Hospital (SLH), Dublin over the last 10 years. Following a peak in 1979, the incidence of MRSA has gradually decreased to around 17% of S. aureus isolates in 1986, almost identical to its incidence 10 years before. However, the spectrum of antibiotic resistance among these organisms remains broad and this seems to be at least partially related to antibiotic usage. Many strains could not be phage typed and others were typable only by the additional phage 90. This has severely limited the usefulness of phage typing in the tracing of sources of outbreaks. Thus, there is a need for a more specific method of typing as well as a rational antibiotic policy, to successfully monitor and curtail the hospital spread of MRSA.
- Subjects :
- Microbiology (medical)
Staphylococcus aureus
medicine.drug_class
Penicillin Resistance
Antibiotics
medicine.disease_cause
Staphylococcal infections
Microbiology
Methicillin
Antibiotic resistance
medicine
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Typing
Bacteriophage Typing
Retrospective Studies
Phage typing
business.industry
Data Collection
Incidence (epidemiology)
General Medicine
Staphylococcal Infections
medicine.disease
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Hospitals
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Infectious Diseases
business
Ireland
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01956701
- Volume :
- 14
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Hospital Infection
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....abc9836f8bc0e333bf2b15d8c6e43738