Literatur 2007

• Randomized controlled trial of chlorhexidine gluconate for washing, intranasal mupirocin, and rifampin and doxycycline versus no treatment for the eradication of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization (Abstract of Clin Infect Dis. 2007 Jan 15;44(2):178-85)
• Effect on MRSA transmission of rapid PCR testing of patients admitted to critical care (Abstract of J Hosp Infect. 2007 Jan; 65(1):24-8. Epub 2006 Dec 4)
• Epidemiology, clinical and laboratory characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in a university hospital in UK (Abstract of J Hosp Infect. 2007 Feb; 65(2):117-23. Epub 2006 Dec 4)
• Importance of the environment in meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus acquisition: the case for hospital cleaning (Abstract of Lancet Infect Dis. 2008 Feb;8(2):101-13. Epub 2007 Oct 31)
• Efficacy of a program of prevention and control for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in an intensive-care unit (Abstract of Braz J Infect Dis. 2007 Feb;11(1):57-62)
• Evidence for cost reduction based on pre-admission MRSA screening in general surgery (Abstract of Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2008 Mar;211(1-2):205-12)
• Transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among hospital staff in a German trauma centre: a problem without a current solution? (Abstract of J Bone Joint Surg Br. 2007 May;89(5):642-5)
• Improving methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surveillance and reporting in intensive care units (Abstract of J Infect Dis. 2007 Feb 1; 195(3):330-8)
• The role of screening and antibiotic prophylaxis in the prevention of percutaneous gastrostomy site infection caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (Abstract of Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2007 Mar 1; 25(5):593-7)
• Pathogens in early-onset and late-onset intensive care unit-acquired pneumonia (Abstract of Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007 Apr;28(4):389-97) (Kolonisation)
• Controlling methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by stepwise implementation of preventive strategies in a university hospital: impact of a link-nurse system on the basis of multidisciplinary approaches (Abstract of Am J Infect Control. 2007 Mar; 35(2):115-21)
• Oral rifampin for eradication of Staphylococcus aureus carriage from healthy and sick populations: a systematic review of the evidence from comparative trials (Abstract of Am J Infect Control. 2007 Mar; 35(2):106-14)
• Enteral vancomycin controls methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus endemicity in an intensive care burn unit: a 9-year prospective study (Abstract of Ann Surg. 2007 Mar;245(3):397-407)
• Role of previous hospitalization in clinically-significant MRSA infection among HIV-infected inpatients: results of a case-control study (Abstract of BMC Infect Dis. 2007 Apr 30;7:36.)
• Antimicrobial drug use and infection control practices associated with the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in European hospitals (Abstract of Clin Microbiol Infect. 2007 Mar;13(3):269-76)
• Healthcare-associated infection and antimicrobial resistance: moving beyond description to prevention (Abstract of Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007 Mar;28(3):261-4)
• Comparison of mortality risk associated with bacteremia due to methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (Abstract of Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007 Mar;28(3):273-9)
• Is throat screening necessary to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in patients upon admission to an intensive care unit? (Abstract of J Clin Microbiol. 2007 Mar;45(3):1072-3)
• Impact of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus active surveillance program on contact precaution utilization in a surgical intensive care unit (Abstract of Crit Care Med. 2007 Feb;35(2):430-4)
• Isolation of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a teaching hospital in Tehran (Abstract of J Hosp Infect. 2007 May; 66(1):92-3. Epub 2007 Apr 10)
• Topical antimicrobials in combination with admission screening and barrier precautions to control endemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an Intensive Care Unit (Abstract of Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2007 May;29(5):536-43)
• Single rooms may help to prevent nosocomial bloodstream infection and cross-transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in intensive care units (Abstract of Intensive Care Med. 2007 May; 33(5):836-40)
• Prevalence and risk factors for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in adult emergency admissions - a case for screening all patients? (Absract of J Hosp Infect. 2007 May; 66(1):15-21. Epub 2007 Mar 21)
• Throat swabs are necessary to reliably detect carriers of Staphylococcus aureus (Abstract of Clin Infect Dis. 2007 Aug 15;45(4):475-7)
• Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage among district nurse patients and medical admissions in a UK district (Abstract of J Hosp Infect. 2007 Aug;66(4):369-73) (Kolonisation)
• Increasing rates of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections among HIV-infected persons (Abstract of Int J STD AIDS. 2007 Aug;18(8):521-6) (Kolonisation)
• An outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in patients of a pediatric intensive care unit and high carriage rate among health care workers (Abstract of J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 2007 Aug;40(4):325-34)
• Nasal carriage of meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus: the prevalence, patients at risk and the effect of elimination on outcomes among outclinic haemodialysis patients (Abstract of Eur J Med Res. 2007 Jul 26; 12(7):284-8)
• Managing multidrug-resistant organisms in home care and hospice: surveillance, prevention, and control (Abstract of Home Healthc Nurse. 2007 Oct; 25(9):580-6; quiz 587-8)
• Widespread environmental contamination associated with patients with diarrhea and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization of the gastrointestinal tract (Abstract of Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007 Oct;28(10):1142-7. Epub 2007 Aug 3)
• Staphylococcus aureus intestinal colonization is associated with increased frequency of S. aureus on skin of hospitalized patients (Abstract of BMC Infect Dis. 2007 Sep 11;7:105)
• The ethics of infection control: philosophical frameworks (Abstract of Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007 Sep;28(9):1077-84)
• Predictive factors of meticillin resistance among patients with Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections at hospital admission (Abstract of J Hosp Infect. 2007 Jun; 66(2):135-41. Epub 2007 May 21)
• Modified guidelines impact on antibiotic use and costs: duration of treatment for pneumonia in a neurosurgical ICU is reduced ( Abstract of J Antimicrob Chemother. 2007 Jun; 59(6):1148-54)
• Control of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and the value of rapid tests (Abstract of J Hosp Infect. 2007 Jun; 65 Suppl 2:100-4)
• Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in hospitals and the community: model predictions based on the UK situation (Abstract of J Hosp Infect. 2007 Jun; 65 Suppl 2:93-9)
• Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue infections at a public hospital: do public housing and incarceration amplify transmission? (Abstract of Arch Intern Med. 2007 May 28;167(10):1026-33) (Kolonisation)
• A sustained reduction in the transmission of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an intensive care unit (Abstract of Crit Care Resusc. 2007 Jun; 9(2):161-5)
• Reduction in hospitalwide incidence of infection or colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with use of antimicrobial hand-hygiene gel and statistical process control charts (Abstract of Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007 Jul; 28(7):837-44)
• Preemptive isolation to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus cross-transmission in diabetic foot (Abstract of Diabetes Care. 2007 Sep;30(9):2341-2)
• Real-time polymerase chain reaction detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: impact on nosocomial transmission and costs (Abstract of Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007 Oct; 28(10):1134-41. Epub 2007 Aug 10)
• Importance of the environment for patient acquisition of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the intensive care unit: a baseline study (Abstract of Crit Care Med. 2007 Oct; 35(10):2275-9)
• Images in clinical medicine. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus abscess after intramuscular steroid injection (Abstract of N Engl J Med. 2006 Aug 17; 355(7):713)
• Übersicht über aktuelle Eradikationsstrategien bei Methicillin-resistenten Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) aus verschiedenen Ländern (Hyg Med 2007; 32 [10]: 389-394) (PDF, 197KB)
• Clinical practice. Skin and soft-tissue infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (of N Engl J Med. 2007 Jul 26;357(4):380-90)
• Guiding empirical antibiotic therapy in orthopaedics: The microbiology of prosthetic joint infection managed by debridement, irrigation and prosthesis retention (Abstract of J Infect. 2007 Jul; 55(1):1-7. Epub 2007 Mar 6)
• Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in meat products, the Netherlands (Abstract of Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 Nov; 13(11):1753-5)
• Infection control and antimicrobial restriction practices for antimicrobial-resistant organisms in Canadian tertiary care hospitals (Abstract of Am J Infect Control. 2007 Nov; 35(9):563-8)
• Impact of contact and droplet precautions on the incidence of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection (Abstract of Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007 Nov; 28(11):1261-6)
• National prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in inpatients at US health care facilities, 2006 (Abstract of Am J Infect Control. 2007 Dec; 35(10):631-7)
• Implementation of an intensified infection control program to reduce MRSA transmissions in a German tertiary care hospital (Abstract of Am J Infect Control. 2007 Dec;35(10):643-9)
• Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus control in an intensive care unit: a 10 year analysis (Abstract of J Hosp Infect. 2007 Dec; 67(4):308-15. Epub 2007 Oct 22)
• Identification and control of an outbreak of ciprofloxacin-susceptible EMRSA-15 on a neonatal unit (Abstract of J Hosp Infect. 2007 Nov;67(3):232-9)
• Relationship between rates of antimicrobial consumption and the incidence of antimicrobial resistance in Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from 47 French hospitals (Abstract of Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007 Dec;28(12):1389-95)
• Emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus of animal origin in humans (Abstract of Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 Dec; 13(12):1834-9)
• Is an increase of MRSA in Oslo, Norway, associated with changed infection control policy? (Abstract of J Infect. 2007 Dec;55(6):531-8)
• A controlled trial of universal gloving versus contact precautions for preventing the transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms (Abstract of Am J Infect Control. 2007 Dec; 35(10):650-5)