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Prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Spanish hospital
E Pérez Trallero1, J M Garcia Arenzana, G Cilla Eguiluz
1Servicio de Microbiologia, Hospital Nuestra Señora de Aránzazu, San Sebastián, Spain.
Reviews of Infectious Diseases
|May 1, 1988
Abstract:
Recent reports of the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Europe are infrequent compared with reports in the 1960s. Annual incidence of the isolation of MRSA was studied in a general hospital in Guipúzcoa (Basque country) over a 9-year period. Overall prevalence was 4.5%-12.93% in the first 3 years (coinciding with an epidemic phase) and later 0.29%, underlining the cyclic and epidemic nature of this infection.