Active surveillance and decolonization without isolation is effective in preventing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission in the psychiatry units

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Das, Sanchita ^a   Harazin, Maureen ^a   Wright, Marc Oliver ^a   Dusich, Irene ^a   Robicsek, Ari ^a,b   Peterson, Lance R ^a,b  

^a NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular typing; Nosocomial MRSA; Psychiatry units; Transmission

Indexed keywords

PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOLONIZATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR TYPING; MUPIROCIN RESISTANCE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84969424970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofu067     Document Type: Article

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