Occurrence of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a marker for transmission in a surgical intensive care unit in China

Yong Chen; Wei Zhao; Hui Liu; Qing Song; Yan Wang; Jingya Zhao; Dongyu Zheng; Xuelin Han; Xiaohua Hu; Hajo Grundmann; Li Han

doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2013.11.019

Occurrence of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a marker for transmission in a surgical intensive care unit in China

Yong Chen, Wei Zhao, Hui Liu, Qing Song, Yan Wang, Jingya Zhao, Dongyu Zheng, Xuelin Han, Xiaohua Hu, Hajo Grundmann, Li Han^*

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Microbes in Health and Disease (MHD)

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Abstract

In 2008, an intensive care unit (ICU) in a large Chinese hospital was moved from a 6-bed old ward to a 20-bed new ward. After the move, the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in patients and environmental sites decreased significantly, but the number of ICU-acquired cases per imported MRSA case increased from 1.4 to 4.1. This study suggests that the nurse cohorting level and hand hygiene compliance are strong predicators of MRSA transmission in ICUs. Copyright (C) 2014 by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	436-438
Number of pages	3
Journal	American journal of infection control
Volume	42
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2013.11.019
Publication status	Published - Apr-2014

Keywords

Ward expansion
Infection control
Environmental contamination
Hand hygiene compliance
Epidemiology
MRSA
IMPACT
MODEL

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