Management of an outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a risk area with empirical intranasal mupirocin [1]

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 155-157

  Rodriguez, G ^a   Gaspar, M C ^a   Mariano, A ^a   Fernandez, C ^a   Sanchez, P ^a   Fereres, J ^a  

^a S Carlos Univ Hospital Planta 2N   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; VANCOMYCIN;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BALNEOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NOSE SMEAR; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RECOVERY ROOM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030749309     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0195-6701(97)90122-5     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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2. Working Party of the Hospital Infection Society and British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Revised guidelines for the control of epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus J Hosp Infect 16 1990 351 377
3. B Mayall R Martin AM Keenan L Irving P Leeson K Lamb Blanket use of intranasal mupirocin for outbreak control and long-term prophylaxis of endemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an open ward J Hosp Infect 32 1996 257 266