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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Long-Term Care Facilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Carol A. Kauffman ,
Suzanne F. Bradley  and
Margaret S. Terpenning
Carol A. Kauffman*
Affiliation:
Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Ann Arbor Veterans’ Administration Medical Center, and theUniversity of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Suzanne F. Bradley
Affiliation:
Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Ann Arbor Veterans’ Administration Medical Center, and theUniversity of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Margaret S. Terpenning
Affiliation:
Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Ann Arbor Veterans’ Administration Medical Center, and theUniversity of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
*
Veterans’ Administration Medical Center, 2215 Fuller Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections emerged as a problem in acute-care hospitals in this country in the 1970s. However, as is true of most nosocomial infections, long-term care facilities have not been exempt from those issues that plague acute-care hospitals, and, indeed, bring their own peculiar circumstances to bear on the problem. Infection and colonization with MRSA has been no exception and has evolved as a major infection control issue within long-term care facilities. Aside from an early report of MRSA cultured from patients in a nursing home in Seattle, Washington in 1969, data on MRSA in long-term care facilities have appeared only recently. In spite of the dearth of information, many long-term care facilities established policies relating to MRSA in the early to mid-1980s; often these policies were developed in hopes of excluding MRSA from their facility, and for many reasons often have not helped solve the problems associated with MRSA in long-term care facilities.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 11 , Issue 11 , November 1990 , pp. 600 - 603
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1990 

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