Better environmental survival of outbreak vs. sporadic MRSA isolates
| Autor: | J.H.T. Wagenvoort, W. Sluijsmans, R.J.R. Penders |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Microbiology (medical) Staphylococcus aureus Micrococcaceae Meticillin medicine.drug_class Antibiotics Drug resistance Environment medicine.disease_cause Microbiology medicine Humans Cross Infection biology Adult patients business.industry Outbreak General Medicine Staphylococcal Infections biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition bacterial infections and mycoses biology.organism_classification Intensive Care Units Infectious Diseases Carrier State Methicillin Resistance Contact Tracing business Surgery Department Hospital Contact tracing medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Hospital Infection. 45:231-234 |
| ISSN: | 0195-6701 |
| Popis: | Environmental sources have been associated with prolonged epidemics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Our objective was to evaluate whether outbreak MRSA strains differ in their environmental survival from sporadic MRSA strains. The strains were detected in five adult patients unknowingly colonized by MRSA. The MRSA strains from patients No. 1 (phage pattern; III-29) and No. 2 (III-215) caused extensive outbreaks in our hospital. Contact tracing after detection of the different MRSA strains in the three other patients did not reveal further spread. Suspensions of MRSA with and without added hospital dust were made in sterile PBS. Surviving counts of MRSA were made by culture at two-weekly or longer intervals up to approximately one year. For each MRSA strain the ultimate day of viability was ascertained. The environmental survival patterns of the five MRSA strains showed qualitative and quantitative differences between the two outbreak and three sporadic strains. A gradual decline was noted for all strains. All survived longer than 6 months, but the two outbreak strains survived significantly better (P |
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