Clinical microbiologists are often asked to determine the relatedness of a group of bacterial
isolates, that is, to type them. During the last decade, traditional methods of strain typing …

Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), and certain gram-negative bacilli …

Executive Summary The Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of
Infectious Agents in Health Care Settings 2007 updates and expands the 1996 Guideline for …

Oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA) is a virulent pathogen responsible for
both health care-associated and community onset disease. We used Sma I-digested …

Hospital-born babies in developing countries are at increased risk of neonatal infections
because of poor intrapartum and postnatal infection-control practices. We reviewed data …

Background: Infection control programs were created three decades ago to control antibiotic-
resistant healthcare-associated infections, but there has been little evidence of control in …

Nosocomial infections (NIs) now concern 5 to 15% of hospitalized patients and can lead to
complications in 25 to 33% of those patients admitted to ICUs. The most common causes are …

Twenty percent of very-low-birth-weight (< 1500 g) preterm infants experience a serious
systemic infection, and despite advances in neonatal intensive care and antimicrobials …

Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) remains endemic in many UK hospitals.
Specific guidelines for control and prevention are justified because MRSA causes serious …

To describe the number and treatment of skin and soft tissue infections likely caused by
Staphylococcus aureus in the United States, we analyzed data from the 1992–1994 and …