Three years' experience of screening for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in obstetrics
| Autor: | J. Suviste, J.W. Gray |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Microbiology (medical) medicine.medical_specialty Population Nose medicine.disease_cause Lower risk Pregnancy Risk Factors Prevalence medicine Humans Mass Screening Infection control Obstetrics and Gynecology Department Hospital education education.field_of_study Obstetrics business.industry Healthy population Infant Newborn General Medicine Staphylococcal Infections biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition bacterial infections and mycoses Infectious Diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus Carrier State Female business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Hospital Infection. 83:61-63 |
| ISSN: | 0195-6701 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jhin.2012.09.007 |
| Popis: | Summary There are few data on meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) screening in obstetrics, a largely healthy population that should be at lower risk for MRSA than most hospitalized populations. From January 2009 to December 2011 nose swabs were screened from 5548 of 21,770 (25.5%) women who delivered at Birmingham Women's Hospital. Only 29 (0.5%) were MRSA positive: MRSA infections occurred later in three cases. MRSA infections occurred in a further 13 mother–infant pairs, including six cases where mothers were MRSA screen negative. Seventeen mothers had risk factors for MRSA. MRSA is not widespread in obstetrics, and large-scale screening of nasal swabs is of limited value in preventing MRSA-related morbidity in this population. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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