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Living With Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus A 7-Year Experience With Endemic MRSA in a University Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Folorunso A.B. Adeyemi-Doro ,
Olaf Scheel ,
Donald J. Lyon  and
Augustine F.B. Cheng
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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.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 11 , November 1997 , pp. 765 - 767
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997 

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