Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America
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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol · Feb 2009
Multicenter StudyAcquisition and cross-transmission of Staphylococcus aureus in European intensive care units.
To study the acquisition and cross-transmission of Staphylococcus aureus in different intensive care units (ICUs). ⋯ Colonization pressure, the number of beds per nurse, and the treatment of all patients in private rooms correlated with the number of S. aureus acquisitions on an ICU. The amount of hand disinfectant used was correlated with the number of cases of MSSA acquisition but not with the number of cases of MRSA acquisition. The number of cases of patient-to-patient cross-transmission was comparable for MSSA and MRSA.