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MRSA growing as community pathogen.(Clinical Rounds)
BETHESDA, MD. -- Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus was three times more prevalent than nosocomial MRSA in a small, non-teaching community hospital, reported Ananthakrishnan Ramini, M.D., at the annual conference on antimicrobial resistance sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
MRSA was once limited to tertiary care centers and large hospitals but is rapidly becoming a dominant community pathogen, said Dr. Ramini, a physician at Columbia Memorial Hospital, a 192-bed facility in Hudson, N.Y.
Dr. Ramini and his colleagues conducted a prospective study of all MRSA infections in the hospital from January to December 2004. The investigators identified 78 cases of MRSA, of which 58 (74%) were community acquired, meaning it was an ...
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