Control of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Hospital and an Intensive Care Unit
Infection Control and Hospital EpidemiologyPublished 1 July 1995
Alan I. Hartstein, Mark A. Denny, Virginia H. Morthland, Ann M. LeMonte, Michael A. Pfaller
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MRSA in hospitals and outbreaks of MRSA in ICUs can be controlled by surveillance and minimal barrier interventions, including a surgical intensive care unit (SICU) outbreak in 1992.
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MRSA in hospitals and outbreaks of MRSA in ICUs can be controlled by surveillance and minimal barrier interventions. REAP or PFGE typing of MRSA can be used to support or refute the presence of cross-transmission. Typing also may be helpful when planning and assessing the effectiveness of interventions directed at endemic, as well as outbreak, MRSA control.
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