Morbidity and mortality due to nosocomial infections are on the increase. The effectiveness
of infection control has become an important indicator of the quality of hospital work, as well …

: Acquisition of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the intensive care unit
of a tertiary referral centre was monitored over a 19-month period. The incidence of new …

BACKGROUND: Staffing deficits and workload have may a bearing on transmission of
meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) within intensive care units (ICUs). New …

Nursing staff workload may influence hospital-acquired staphylococcal transmission.
Closure of wards to new admissions is used in some institutions as part of methicillin …

Objective: To determine the roles of “colonization pressure,” work load or patient severity in
patient acquisition of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in intensive care …

Objective. To study the acquisition and cross-transmission of Staphylococcus aureus in
different intensive care units (ICUs). Methods. We performed a multicenter cohort study. Six …

Background The presence of nosocomial pathogens in many intensive care units poses a
threat to patients and public health worldwide. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus …

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the most important hospital
acquired pathogens and recently there have been significant worldwide increase in …

Because there is little information about the frequency of carriage of various species of
coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) in hospitalized patients and the possible …

Background and Objective: In the Netherlands, the prevalence of methicillin resistance
among Staphylococcus aureus isolates has been kept to less than 1% by using active …