Living With Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus A 7-Year Experience With Endemic MRSA in a University Hospital
- 1 November 1997
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
- Vol. 18 (11), 765-767
- https://doi.org/10.1086/647532
Abstract
A review of our infection control records revealed 3,159 new isolations of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from 1988 to 1994. Prior to this period, our approach to MRSA had changed from eradication to containment measures. We found a decline in MRSA rates from 11.4 to 5.2 first isolations per 1,000 deaths and discharges over the study period.Keywords
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