Staphylococcus aureus

Former MRSA Patients Should Be Routinely Screened On Readmission

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 3rd, 2001

by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can last well beyond hospital discharge and into the next readmission. That's why former MRSA patients should be checked for ongoing colonization if they are readmitted soon after discharge.

A. Scanvic and colleagues in France studied a group of MRSA patients who were readmitted to the hospital over the course of 10 months. Specimens from the nares and skin revealed ongoing colonization in 40% of the 78 patients studied.

The median duration for MRSA clearance among these patients was 8.5 months, wrote Scanvic and coworkers in...

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