COMMENTARY

Infection

MRSA: the problem reaches paediatrics

J W Gray

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Correspondence to:
Dr J W Gray
Department of Microbiology, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK; jim.gray@bch.nhs.uk

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Commentary on the paper by Khairulddin et al

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Keywords: Staphylococcus aureus; methicillin-resistant

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The pattern of MRSA in UK hospitals nowadays is very different to that seen a decade or so ago. Then, MRSA was confined mainly to a relatively small number of hospitals in the southeast of England and some of the large provincial conurbations.¹ However, new strains of epidemic MRSA, especially EMRSA-15 and EMRSA-16, have since emerged and spread to become established to some extent in virtually every hospital in the country.¹ Between 1992 and 2002 the proportion of blood culture isolates of Staphylococcus aureus reported by microbiology laboratories to the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre that were methicillin resistant increased from 3% to 43%.² The pervasiveness of MRSA is underlined by the fact that MRSA now accounts for over 30% of S aureus bacteraemias in every health care region in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.³

MRSA are frequently not only resistant to methicillin and other ß-lactam antibiotics, but to other . . . [Full text of this article]

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