Journal article
Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus infections in patients on hemodialysis
Infection control and hospital epidemiology, Vol.15(2), pp.78-81
02/1994
DOI: 10.1086/646865
PMID: 8201238
Abstract
To determine the epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus infections in hemodialysis patients.
S aureus isolates from surveillance cultures and from sites of infection were evaluated by both bacteriophage typing and restriction endonuclease digestion of plasmid DNA.
A hemodialysis unit in Brugge, Belgium. ORGANISMS: S aureus isolates from 11 chronic hemodialysis patients who had participated in the placebo arm of a previously reported placebo-mupirocin comparative study.
Of 75 S aureus isolates evaluated, 63 were from cultures of nares and 12 from infections (three arteriovenous fistula infections, four wound infections, and five bacteremias). All isolates were typed by bacteriophages and 56 (75%) had plasmids. Three patients developed 12 infections. Eleven infections were caused by isolates previously identified in surveillance cultures. Only one infection was caused by a strain not identified previously in surveillance cultures.
These results support the hypothesis that S aureus isolates causing infections in hemodialysis patients are of endogenous origin.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus infections in patients on hemodialysis
- Creators
- J Ena - Department of Internal Medicine C41 GH, University of Iowa, Iowa CityJ R BoelaertL D BoykenH W Van LanduytC A GodardL A Herwaldt
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Infection control and hospital epidemiology, Vol.15(2), pp.78-81
- DOI
- 10.1086/646865
- PMID
- 8201238
- ISSN
- 0899-823X
- eISSN
- 1559-6834
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/1994
- Academic Unit
- Infectious Diseases; Epidemiology; Pathology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984094703202771
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