Article
Tracing the origin of an outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in a Portuguese hospital by molecular fingerprinting methods.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 1996
Sanches I S, Aires de Sousa M, Cleto L, de Campos M B, de Lencastre H
Abstract excerpt
Seventy-six methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates were collected from July 1992 to May 1995 at a 400-bed district hospital in the northeast of Portugal. During the second half of the surveillance period, in July of 1994, an outbreak was detected in the orthopedic ward. Thirt...
Topics
- Blotting, Southern
- Cross Infection
- DNA Fingerprinting
- DNA Probes
- DNA, Bacterial
- Disease Outbreaks
- Genotype
- Humans
- Infection Control
- Methicillin
- Methicillin Resistance
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Penicillins
- Portugal
- Staphylococcal Infections
- Staphylococcus aureus