1. Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; the role of antisepsis in the control of an outbreak.
- Author
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Tuffnell DJ, Croton RS, Hemingway DM, Hartley MN, Wake PN, and Garvey RJ
- Subjects
- Baths, England, Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over, Hospitals, General, Humans, Penicillin Resistance, Retrospective Studies, Staphylococcal Infections drug therapy, Staphylococcal Infections prevention & control, Staphylococcus aureus isolation & purification, Triclosan therapeutic use, Antisepsis methods, Disease Outbreaks prevention & control, Methicillin, Staphylococcal Infections epidemiology
- Abstract
Between February 1983 and September 1985, an outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus involving 151 patients and staff occurred in a district general hospital. At its peak, 43 cases occurred in 3 months. Sixty-two patients suffered morbidity and two died. Conventional isolation techniques and once-daily whole body washing of affected patients with triclosan successfully controlled the outbreak.
- Published
- 1987
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