Comment on MRSA studies in high school wrestling and athletic training facilities.

摘要

We read with interest the two recent articles by the Ohio University group (JEH, Jan/Feb 2010) in which they reported 19 of 20 sites from rural high school wrestling and athletic training facilities yielded 22-89 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)-positive samples based solely on the color of colonies off the BBL#8482; CHROMagar~(TM) plates (Montgomery, Ryan, Krause, Starkey, 2010; Stanforth, Krause, Starkey Ryan, 2010). The level of contamination found in these two studies was much higher than the 14 (bathroom handles) to 40 (bed linens and patient gowns) MRSA-positive rate found in four hospital studies, which looked at the level of environmental contamination in rooms of MRSA-positive patients and should therefore have high MRSA contamination levels (Dancer, 2008).