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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococci co-colonization.

Jon P Furuno; Eli N Perencevich; Judith A Johnson; Marc-Oliver Wright; Jessina C McGregor; J Glenn Morris; Sandra M Strauss; Mary-Claire Roghman; Lucia L Nemoy; Harold C Standiford; et al. (Profiled Author: Anthony D Harris)

Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA. jfuruno@epi.umaryland.edu
Emerging infectious diseases 2005;11(10):1539-44.

We assessed the prevalence, risk factors, and clinical outcomes of patients co-colonized with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) upon admission to the medical and surgical intensive care units (ICUs) of a tertiary-care facility between January 1, 2002, and December 31, 2003. Co-colonization was defined as a VRE-positive perirectal surveillance culture with an MRSA-positive anterior nares surveillance culture collected concurrently. Among 2,440 patients, 65 (2.7%) were co-colonized. Independent risk factors included age (odds ratio [OR] 1.03, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.01-1.05), admission to the medical ICU (OR 4.38, 95% CI 2.46-7.81), male sex (OR 1.93, 95% CI 1.14-3.30), and receiving antimicrobial drugs on a previous admission within 1 year (OR 3.06, 95% CI 1.85-5.07). None of the co-colonized patients would have been identified with clinical cultures alone. We report a high prevalence of VRE/MRSA co-colonization upon admission to ICUs at a tertiary-care hospital.

1 Originating Grant

• 1.

  Harris, Anthony D

  Study design importance in analyzing emerging pathogens

  1 April 2001 - 31 March 2007

  NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES

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