PMID: 8597316Mar 15, 1996Paper

A cloud adult: the Staphylococcus aureus-virus interaction revisited

Annals of Internal Medicine
R J SherertzJ M Gwaltney

Abstract

Nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus is common among health care workers, but outbreaks caused by such carriers are relatively uncommon. We previously reported outbreaks of S. aureus skin infections that affected newborn infants and were attributed to an S. aureus nasal carrier who had had an associated upper respiratory tract infection (UR) during the outbreak period. To investigate the contribution of a nasal methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) carrier (physician 4) who contracted a URI to an outbreak of MRSA infections that involved 8 of 43 patients in a surgical intensive care unit during a 3-week period. An epidemiologic study of an outbreak of MRSA infections and a quantitative investigation of airborne dispersal of S. aureus associated with an experimentally induced rhinoviral infection. A university hospital. 43 patients in a surgical intensive care unit and 1 physician. Molecular typing was done, and risk factors for MRSA colonization were analyzed. Agar settle plates and volumeric air cultures were used to evaluate the airborne dispersal of S. aureus by physician 4 before and after a rhinoviral infection and with or without a surgical mask. A search for nasal carriers of MRSA identified a single physician (physi...Continue Reading

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