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MRSA admission screening in a low prevalence setting - much ado about nothing?

Swiss medical weekly - 1 Jan 2011

Witteck Andrea, Rettenmund Gabriela, Schlegel Matthias

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OBJECTIVE: To prospectively evaluate new guidelines for MRSA admission screening and pre-emptive isolation implemented in response to a doubling of newly diagnosed MRSA patients in 2007. DESIGN: One-year surveillance (04/2008-03/2009). SETTING: Patients admitted to the tertiary-care hospital in St. Gallen (700 beds) and 10 affiliated public hospitals (890 beds) in Eastern Switzerland (MRSA rate 2.5% in isolates)....

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PMID: 21735366
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2011.13217

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