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Longitudinal Evaluation of Clinical and Colonization Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates Among Veterans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2015

Edward Stenehjem ,
Emily K. Crispell ,
David Rimland ,
Monica M. Farley  and
Sarah W. Satola
Edward Stenehjem*
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, Utah
Emily K. Crispell
Affiliation:
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
David Rimland
Affiliation:
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, Decatur, Georgia
Monica M. Farley
Affiliation:
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, Decatur, Georgia
Sarah W. Satola
Affiliation:
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
*
Address correspondence to Edward Stenehjem, MD, MSc, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, Intermountain Medical Center, 5121 S. Cottonwood Street, Murray, UT 84157 ([email protected]).
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Abstract

Using the Veterans’ Health Administration MRSA Directive as a platform to collect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization isolates and an active MRSA infection surveillance program, the genetic relatedness of colonization and infection isolates was evaluated. Infection and colonization strain concordance was found in 85.7% of patients. The USA 500 MRSA strain was identified in 31.8% of patients.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2015;00(0): 1–3

Type
Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , May 2015 , pp. 587 - 589
Copyright
© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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Footnotes

PREVIOUS PRESENTATION: Presented in part at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, October 20–23, 2011 (poster presentation).

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