Intervention to reduce the incidence of healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Saudi Arabia.

摘要

To the Editor-The greatest success in controlling methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been in places that adhere to rigorous transmission-based control policies that include active surveillance culture testing to identify colonized patients and strict application of barrier precautions for patients who are colonized or infected with MRSA. The observation that MRSA has been successfully controlled with rigorous infection control practices supports the premise that transmission is the major factor that contributes to the increasing prevalence of MRSA colonization and infection.2 The aim of our study is to show that reduction in the rate of healthcare-associated MRSA (HA-MRSA) infection is an achievable goal, even in developing countries, with the implementation of transmission-based control policies.