Jan. 7, 2005 — Isolation practices for patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the intensive care unit (ICU) are not necessary, according to the results of a prospective, ...
Universal decolonization of all ICU patients can help reduce bloodstream infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and also lower healthcare costs, and does so better compared ...
We use an extended version of a previously described stochastic simulation model. [10] The model contains three hospitals of 693 beds, each with an extramural population of 220,000 subjects. Patients ...
Methicillin-resistant staph infections have entered the community, posing a bigger challenge for health-care providers. The CDC outlines what to do. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), ...
Peter Holmes knows well the value of personal cleanliness. “I?m in the oral health profession, so we?re probably the cleanest of all because we wash our hands all the time,” said the Columbia resident ...
Researchers have concluded MRSA screening using polymerase chain reaction generally demonstrated lower turnaround time and number of isolation days than chromogenic agar, according to research ...
The story of MRSA begins just four years after methicillin entered medical practice in 1959. The bacteria had already developed resistance to the new antibiotic, demonstrating the remarkable ...
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