Outbreak of multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A cluster analysis
| Autor: | Masao Tanaka, Takayoshi Nagata, Yoshiaki Nose, Yuko Nishioka, Junichi Yoshida |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Cross infection
Staphylococcus aureus Micrococcaceae Epidemiology Microbial Sensitivity Tests medicine.disease_cause Staphylococcal infections Disease Outbreaks Microbiology medicine Cluster Analysis Humans Canonical discriminant analysis Cross Infection biology business.industry Outbreak Staphylococcal Infections biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Drug Resistance Multiple Anti-Bacterial Agents Bacterial Typing Techniques Multi drug resistant business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 49:1447-1452 |
| ISSN: | 0895-4356 |
| Popis: | Background. Outbreaks of multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus over eight years were investigated to prevent future endemic. Methods. Isolates of multiresistant S. aureus underwent a cluster analysis combined with canonical discriminant analysis using bacteriologic biotyping and sensitivity to 21 drugs. Results. Of a total of 786 strains recovered from 155 in-patients, the specialty surgical ward (SW) exhibited 470 isolates (59.8%) and the general SW 214 (27.2%). Among six clusters formed, four clusters were predominant in the general SW. An ordination diagram from the canonical discriminant analysis revealed a distribution in which clusters were localized temporally (year) and spatially (ward). A yearly shift of clusters indicated emergence of a new phenotype of multiresistant S. aureus . Conclusions. The cluster analysis of isolates of multiresistant S. aureus using biotyping and sensitivity may supplement the classical method of tracing the spreading patterns of this microbe. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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