Report of a hospital neonatal unit outbreak of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Abstract:

:Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) with the type IV staphylococcal chromosomal cassette mec (SCCmec) is rarely reported as being acquired in hospital. We report a hospital outbreak, in Grampian, Scotland, of eight cases of skin and soft-tissue infections due to such a strain. All patients had been in the labour, delivery and maternity units of a small community hospital during a 7-month period. Typing by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis showed the isolates to be a single strain closely related to the USA800 lineage (paediatric clone) and additional typing confirmed it as ST5-MRSA-IV. Genes for exfoliative toxin A (ETA) and enterotoxin D were detected by PCR in all the isolates although none carried the Panton-Valentine leukocidin gene. Region-wide surveillance of over 6000 MRSA isolates collected from 1998 to 2004 showed that 95 (1.6%) were closely related to the outbreak strain although only 60 carried the ETA gene. The strain has not been seen elsewhere in Scotland.

journal_name

Epidemiol Infect

authors

Gould IM,Girvan EK,Browning RA,MacKenzie FM,Edwards GF

doi

10.1017/S0950268809002234

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2009-09-01 00:00:00

pages

1242-8

issue

9

eissn

0950-2688

issn

1469-4409

pii

S0950268809002234

journal_volume

137

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