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A Cluster of Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Hospital Security Guards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Eleni Patrozou ,
Kim Reid ,
Julie Jefferson  and
Leonard A. Mermel
Eleni Patrozou
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Kim Reid
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Infection Control, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
Julie Jefferson
Affiliation:
Department of Community Health, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Department of Epidemiology and Infection Control, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
Leonard A. Mermel*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Department of Epidemiology and Infection Control, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy Street, Providence, RI 02903 (lmermel@lifespan.org)
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Abstract

We investigated a cluster of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus soft-tissue infections in 5 security guards employed in a hospital emergency department. An epidemiologic investigation and molecular subtyping of isolates revealed that the source was a patient and that a community-acquired methicillin-resistant S. aureus strain (USA-300) was transmitted to healthcare workers through physical contact.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , April 2009 , pp. 386 - 388
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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