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Risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infection
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Harbarth, Stéphan Juergen
Huttner, Benedikt
Gervaz, Pascal
Fankhauser, Carolina
Chraiti, Marie-Noelle
Schrenzel, Jacques
Licker, Marc
Pittet, Didier
Published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2008, vol. 29, no. 9, p. 890-893
Abstract We prospectively evaluated 46 possible risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) surgical site infection (SSI) among patients with MRSA carriage in a large intervention study. Of 6,130 study patients, 68 (1.1%) developed MRSA SSI, which occurred a median of 14 days after surgery. Risk factors associated with MRSA SSI were receipt of emergency surgery, presence of comorbid condition, receipt of immunosuppressive therapy, receipt of contaminated surgery, and a surgical duration longer than the 75th percentile. MRSA carriage on admission did not predict MRSA SSI.
Keywords Aged — Aged, 80 and over — Carrier State/epidemiology/microbiology — Female — Hospitals, University — Humans — Male — Methicillin Resistance — Middle Aged — Risk Factors — Staphylococcal Infections/epidemiology/microbiology — Staphylococcus aureus/drug effects — Surgical Wound Infection/epidemiology/microbiology — Switzerland/epidemiology — Time Factors
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PMID: 18785849
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Other version: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/590193?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pu...
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine interne des spécialités
Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département d'anesthésiologie, pharmacologie et soins intensifs chirurgicaux
Research groups Dysfonctions cardio-pulmonaires et cérébrales (278)
Staphylocoques dorés résistants à la méthicilline et hygiène hospitalière (330)
Analyse génomique et fonctionnelle du staphylocoque doré (604)
Groupe Harbarth Stephan (Staphylocoques dorés résistants à la méthicilline) (866)
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(ISO format) 		HARBARTH, Stéphan Juergen et al. Risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infection. In: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 2008, vol. 29, n° 9, p. 890-893. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:1707

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