2011
DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0b013e3181f39222
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Active surveillance culturing impacts methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus acquisition in a pediatric intensive care unit*

Abstract: Active surveillance culturing resulted in significantly decreased nosocomial acquisition of MRSA in a pediatric intensive care unit setting. Admission and weekly active surveillance culturing appears to be an effective tool to decrease the spread of MRSA in the pediatric intensive care unit, independent of improvement in hand hygiene compliance. The impact on hospital-acquired MRSA infections and the cost benefit of active surveillance culturing require further study.

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“…This difference may relate to heightened infection control practices in hospitals across the United States. 6 The data presented herein demonstrate that although S aureus remains a very common pathogen in SSTIs (Figure 1A), a 3.4% annual overall decline in methicillin resistance among S aureus isolated from pediatric SSTs was noted between 2006 and 2010 (Figure 1B). It would appear that the driving force of this change is a decrease in outpatient MRSA, which decreased by 2.0% per year, whereas no trend in MRSA over time could be identified among inpatients ( r 2 = .2).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 69%
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“…This difference may relate to heightened infection control practices in hospitals across the United States. 6 The data presented herein demonstrate that although S aureus remains a very common pathogen in SSTIs (Figure 1A), a 3.4% annual overall decline in methicillin resistance among S aureus isolated from pediatric SSTs was noted between 2006 and 2010 (Figure 1B). It would appear that the driving force of this change is a decrease in outpatient MRSA, which decreased by 2.0% per year, whereas no trend in MRSA over time could be identified among inpatients ( r 2 = .2).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 69%
“…Data on the epidemiology of MRSA in children is limited. 5-7 particularly comparing the strains associated with HA-MRSA and CA-MRSA infections. CA-MRSA can be distinguished from HA-MRSA by molecular typing, antibiotic resistance profiles, sites of infection, or affected patients.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…12 Holzmann-Pazgal reported that admission and weekly active surveillance culturing appeared to be an effective tool to decrease the spread of MRSA in a PICU, independent of improving hand hygiene compliance. 15 …”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…12 Holzmann-Pazgal reported that admission and weekly active surveillance culturing appeared to be an effective tool to decrease the spread of MRSA in a PICU, independent of improving hand hygiene compliance. 15 One of the goals of this study was to determine the prevalence of MRSA among patients with CHD who are admitted to the PICU. We believe that identification and isolation of these patients were important to prevent the spread of MRSA among all patients admitted to the PICU.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…. Of these 25 studies, seven used unspecified culture-based techniques[12,21,27,28,37,40,46], eight used MRSA chromogenic media (at least partially)[19,[31][32][33][34]38,45,47] and the others used mannitol salt, oxacillin salt or blood agars. An estimate for the turnaround times (TAT) of screening results was only reported in eight of the 25 studies (1 d-5.2 d)[10,12,19- 21,33,34,38].…”
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