Imported Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus aureus, Sweden

Autor: Karl Ekdahl, Sara Hæggman, Mikael Stenhem, Mats Kalin, Åke Örtqvist, Leif Larsson, Barbro Olsson-Liljequist, Håkan Ringberg
Rok vydání: 2010
Předmět:
Male
Veterinary medicine
Meticillin
Epidemiology
lcsh:Medicine
Drug resistance
medicine.disease_cause
molecular epidemiology
community-acquired infections
Odds Ratio
Prevalence
Child
population surveillance
disease transmission
Travel
Transmission (medicine)
Middle Aged
Staphylococcal Infections
Infectious Diseases
Child
Preschool
Carrier State
Female
medicine.drug
Adult
Microbiology (medical)
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Genotype
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Staphylococcal infections
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
Young Adult
Antibiotic resistance
Environmental health
Adoption
medicine
Humans
lcsh:RC109-216
antimicrobial resistance
staphylococci
Aged
Sweden
Molecular epidemiology
business.industry
Research
lcsh:R
Infant
biochemical phenomena
metabolism
and nutrition
bacterial infections and mycoses
medicine.disease
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Communicable disease control
business
Zdroj: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 16, Iss 2, Pp 189-196 (2010)
Emerging Infectious Diseases
ISSN: 1080-6059
1080-6040
DOI: 10.3201/eid1602.081655
Popis: Knowledge of different risks for infection will improve control measures.
Countries such as Sweden that have a low prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) offer the opportunity to discern and study transmission of imported cases of MRSA. We analyzed 444 imported cases of MRSA acquisition reported in Sweden during 2000–2003. Risk for MRSA in returning travelers ranged from 0.1 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.01–0.4) per 1 million travelers to Nordic countries to 59.4 (95% CI 44.5–79.3) per 1 million travelers to North Africa and the Middle East. Most imported cases (246, 55%) were healthcare acquired, but regions with the highest risk for MRSA in travelers showed a correlation with community acquisition (r = 0.81, p = 0.001). Characteristic differences in MRSA strains acquired were dependent on the region from which they originated and whether they were community or healthcare acquired. Knowledge of differences in transmission of MRSA may improve control measures against imported cases.
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