Risk factors for Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage in residents of three nursing homes in Germany

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 216-220

  Daeschlein, G ^a   Assadian, O ^b   Rangous, I ^a   Kramer, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Colonization; MRSA; Nursing home; Prevalence; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; OXACILLIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NOSE INFECTION; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STROKE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARRIER STATE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NASAL CAVITY; NURSING HOMES; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 33646381607     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2005.12.014     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Bradley S.F., Terpenning M.S., Ramsy M.A., et al. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: colonization and infection in a long-term care facility. Ann Intern Med 115 (1991) 417-422
2. Muder R.R., Brennen C., Wagener M.M., et al. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcal colonization and infection in a long term care facility. Ann Intern Med 114 (1991) 107-112
3. Lucet J.C., Grenet K., Armand-Lefevre L., et al. High prevalence of carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at hospital admission in elderly patients: implications for infection control strategies. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 26 (2005) 121-126
4. Spindel S.J., Strausbaugh L.J., and Jacobson C. Infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus in a veterans affairs nursing home care unite: a 5-year experience. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 16 (1995) 217-223
5. Zierdt C.H. Long-term staphylococcus carrier state in hospital patients. J Clin Microbiol 16 (1982) 517-520
6. Eveillard M., Ernst C., Cuviller S., et al. Prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage at the time of admission in two acute geriatric wards. J Hosp Infect 50 (2002) 122-126
7. Moreno F., Crisp C., Jorgensen J.H., and Patterson J.E. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a community organism. Clin Infect Dis 21 (1995) 1308-1312
8. Murphy S., Denman S., Bennet R.G., et al. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in a long-term care facility. J Am Geriatr Soc 40 (1992) 213-217
9. Weigand S. Vorkommen von Methicillin-resistentem und Methicillin-sensiblem Staphylococcus aureus in Alten-bzw. Pflegeheimen - eine Stichprobe in Vorpommern und das Hygienverhalten in diesen Heimen als Beitrag zur Community Medizin. [Prevalence of methicillin-sensitive and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in nursing homes - results of a prevalence survey in Pommerania and attitude towards infection control measures]. Doctoral thesis. Medical Faculty of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, Greifswald; 1999.
10. Witte W., Braulke Ch., and Hauck D. MRSA situation in Germany. Hyg Med 25 (2000) 347-354
11. von Baum H., Schmidt C., Svoboda D., Bock-Hensley O., and Wendt C. Risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage in residents of German nursing homes. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 23 (2002) 511-515
12. Goettsch W., Geubbels E., Wannet W., Hendrix M.G., Wagenvoort J.H., and De Neeling A.J. MRSA in nursing homes in the Netherlands 1989 to 1998: a developing reservoir?. Euro Surveill 5 (2000) 28-31
13. Hall D.L. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and infection control for restorative dental treatment in nursing homes. Spec Care Dentist 23 (2003) 100-107
14. Heudorf U., Bremer V., and Heuck D. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in long-term care facilities for the aged in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1999. Gesundheitswesen 63 (2001) 447-454
15. Girou E., Pujade G., Legrand P., et al. Selective screening of carriers for control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in high-risk hospital areas with a high level of endemic MRSA. Clin Infect Dis 27 (1998) 543-550
16. Lucet J., Chevret S., Durand-Zaleski I., et al. Prevalence and risk factors for carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at admission to the intensive care unit. Arch Intern Med 163 (2003) 181-188
17. Coello R., Jimenez J., Garcia M., et al. Prospective study of infection, colonization and carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an outbreak affecting 990 patients. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 13 (1994) 74-81