Usefulness of weekly methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus screening.

Raouchan Rymzhanova (1) , Michelle Thouverez (1) , Daniel Talon (1) , Xavier Bertrand (1)

1 LCE - Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249)

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.

Domaines: Santé publique et épidémiologie; Microbiologie et Parasitologie

Raouchan Rymzhanova, Michelle Thouverez, Daniel Talon, Xavier Bertrand. Usefulness of weekly methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus screening.. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 2009, 30 (11), pp.1113-5. ⟨10.1086/644753⟩. ⟨hal-00448426⟩