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Revised guidelines for the control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in hospitals: Report of a combined working party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, the Hospital Infection Society and the Infection Control Nurses Association,☆☆,

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    • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on the skin of long-term hospitalised horses

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      As described in humans (Bradley, 2007; CLSI, 2010), there was not always a correlation between the isolation of MRSA from the skin and the nasal chambers and isolation rates from the skin varied with anatomical location. Thus, MRSA screening protocols in equine hospitals would benefit from sampling at least one targeted skin site in addition to the nasal chambers, similar to the procedures followed in humans (Combined Working Party of the BSAC, 1998; Wanten et al., 1998; Lautenbach et al., 2009; Bitterman et al., 2010). Since the current study only sampled animals hospitalised long-term (>6 months), further work will be required to confirm the validity of the selected ‘high-contact’ locations for the screening of various patient populations.

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    This report was prepared on behalf of the Working Party by G. Duckworth, B. Cookson, H. Humphreys and R. Heathcock.

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    This report is available on disk (please send a floppy disk) from Dr. G. Duckworth.

    This Working Party Report will appear on the Journal's website (http://www.his.org.uk).

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