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B Ashiq

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PubMed1989

Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus in a teaching hospital of Karachi--a laboratory study.

A search was made for Methicillin Resistant Strains of Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) among staph aureus cultures isolated at a teaching hospital in Karachi. Of 100 staphylococcus aureus isolated in 1987-88, 5 were MRSA, four from admitted patients and one from outpatient. These MRSA were resistant to Gentamicin as well as to other antibiotics. The presence of MRSA in the in-patients is a serious problem as it can act as reservoir to cause outbreak of colonisation and infection. No MRSA was isolated from 50 samples studied from Quetta.

Cross Infection↗
PubMed1989

The carrier state: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. A hospital study "screening of hospital personnel" for nasal carriage of Staph aureus.

Methicillin resistant Staph Aureus (MRSA) were studied in a 300 bedded Central Government Hospital Rawalpindi, in which 291 staff members were screened by nasal swabbing. Of 125 cases carrying staph aureus 5 (1.78%) were methicillin resistant. They were treated with Bacitracin ointment to be applied to interior nares four times a day for one week. Hexachlorophane baths daily, chlorhexidine shampoo once daily for a week, and were taken off duty from wards for one day.

Carrier State↗