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Living with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a 7-year experience with endemic MRSA in a university
F A Adeyemi-Doro1, O Scheel, D J Lyon
1Department of Microbiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin NT, Hong Kong.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|December 16, 1997
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.