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Prevalence of MRSA ST398 Carriage in Nursing Home Residents in an Area of Spain With a High Density of Pig Farming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2017

Esteban Reynaga*
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitari de Vic, Barcelona, Spain Department of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Carmen Torres
Affiliation:
Area de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, Spain
Marian Garcia-Nuñez
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Unit, Health Sciences Research Institute of the Germans Trias i Pujol Foundation, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Madrid, Spain
Marian Navarro
Affiliation:
Microbiology Department, Hospital Universitari de Vic, Barcelona, Spain
Anna Vilamala
Affiliation:
Microbiology Department, Hospital Universitari de Vic, Barcelona, Spain
Emma Puigoriol
Affiliation:
Epidemiology Department, Hospital Universitari de Vic, Barcelona, Spain
Gianni Enrico Lucchetti
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitari de Vic, Barcelona, Spain
Daniella Nunes
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitari de Vic, Barcelona, Spain
Adriana Silva
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitari de Vic, Barcelona, Spain
Miquel Sabrià
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Infectious Diseases Unit, Health Sciences Research Institute of the Germans Trias i Pujol Foundation, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Madrid, Spain
*
Address correspondence to Esteban Reynaga, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitari de Vic, Francesc Pla El Vigatà 1, Vic (08500), Barcelona, Spain (eareynaga@chv.cat).

Abstract

MRSA nasal carriage was detected in 15.7% of 204 residents from 6 nursing homes (NHs) in the Osona region (Barcelona, Spain), and the MRSA-ST398 lineage was identified in 15.6% of MRSA-positive residents and in 2.5% of all NH residents evaluated. Most MRSA-ST398 carriers (4 of 5) had direct or indirect contact with pig farms.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2018;39:90–93

Type
Concise Communications
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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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