https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/188108
標題: | A Hospital-Acquired Outbreak of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infection Initiated by a Surgeon Carrier | 作者: | CHANG, SHAN-CHWEN KO, WEN-JE LUH, KWEN- TAY |
關鍵字: | FIELD GEL-ELECTROPHORESIS;HEALTH-CARE WORKERS;NASAL;ELIMINATION;OINTMENT;TAIWAN | 公開日期: | 2001 | 卷: | v.47 | 期: | n.2 | 起(迄)頁: | 104-109 | 來源出版物: | JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION | 摘要: | Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has become an important hospital-acquired pathogen, infection with which often leads to major morbidity acid mortality. The principal mode of transmission for MRSA is transfer of the organism from a carrier or infected patient to uninfected patients by the: hands or clothing of staff. From January 16 1997 to April 2 1997, five patients who had undergone open-heart surgery in a hospital located in northern Taiwan, developed surgical wound infections and mediastinitis caused by MRSA. All patients were hospitalized in two adjacent surgical intensive care units (ICUs) following their respective operations. Consequently: the hospital's infection control team commenced investigation of the outbreak. Pulsed- field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) has been shown to be a good technique for epidemiological typing . By analysing cultures taken from staff by PFGE, it was demonstrated that this outbreak was most likely to be initiated by a surgeon with MRSA carriage. After elimination of the carrier state using topical mupirocin treatment, the outbreak was controlled without further incident (C) 2001 The Hospital infection Society. |
URI: | http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/95155 |
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