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    MRSA bacteraemia: North/South study of MRSA in Ireland 1999.

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    Mc Donald, P
    Mitchell, E
    Johnson, H
    Rossney, A
    Humphreys, H
    Glynn, G
    Burd, M
    Doyle, D
    Mc Donnell, R
    Affiliation
    Health Information Unit, Department of Public Health, Eastern Regional Health Authority, Dublin, Ireland. patriciamcdonald@eircom.net
    Issue Date
    2002-12
    Keywords
    INFECTION CONTROL
    Local subject classification
    HEALTHCARE-ACQUIRED INFECTION
    METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS
    MeSH
    Bacteremia
    Cross Infection
    Data Collection
    England
    Humans
    Incidence
    Infection Control
    Ireland
    Laboratories
    Methicillin Resistance
    Microbial Sensitivity Tests
    Northern Ireland
    Population Surveillance
    Prevalence
    Questionnaires
    Residence Characteristics
    Retrospective Studies
    Staphylococcal Infections
    Staphylococcus aureus
    Wales
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    McDonald P et al. MRSA bacteraemia: North/South study of MRSA in Ireland 1999. J. Hosp. Infect. 2002, 52 (4):288-91
    Journal
    The Journal of hospital infection
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10147/324292
    PubMed ID
    12473474
    Additional Links
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12473474
    Abstract
    Retrospective aggregate data on all Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered from blood cultures during 1998 were collected in both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland, Northern Ireland (North) and the Republic of Ireland (South), as part of the North/South Study of MRSA in Ireland 1999. A postal questionnaire was used to gather the data, and all diagnostic microbiology laboratories in the North and 98% of laboratories in the South participated. S. aureus bacteraemia occurred at rates of 20.4 per 100,000 population in the North and 24.5 per 100,000 in the South (missing data from one laboratory). In the North, 22% of patients who had blood cultures positive for S. aureus had methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) and 25% of S. aureus isolates were MRSA (some patients had more than one isolate). In the South, 31% of patients who had blood cultures positive for S. aureus had MRSA and 36% of S. aureus isolates were MRSA. There was a marked variation in rates between different regions. The percentage of patients with blood cultures positive for S. aureus that had MRSA was considerably lower in the North (22%) than in the South (31%), and in both jurisdictions was lower than that found in England and Wales in 1999 (37%). It is recommended that data on S. aureus bacteraemia and methicillin-resistance rates (already available in many laboratories) are gathered at regional and national level for the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance.
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    en
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    0195-6701
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