BMJ 2005;331 (29 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7523.0-a
MRSA infection in a vicious circle with hospitalisation
About a quarter of UK hospital patients with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia are infected before coming to hospital, and nine out of 10 of these patients had been hospitalised before. Wyllie and colleagues (p 992) analysed MRSA infection rates in two hospitals in Oxfordshire over seven years. Half of the patients who came into the hospital infected had no record of previous isolation of MRSA; about a third were admitted to renal, oncology, or haematology wards for intensive day case therapy, and most of the rest were admitted to emergency services.
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