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. 2008 Nov;29(11):1077-9.
doi: 10.1086/591452.

Effect of screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage by polymerase chain reaction on the duration of unnecessary preemptive contact isolation

Ilker Uçkay  1 , Hugo Sax, Anne Iten, Véronique Camus, Gesuele Renzi, Jacques Schrenzel, Arnaud Perrier, Didier Pittet
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Effect of screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage by polymerase chain reaction on the duration of unnecessary preemptive contact isolation

Ilker Uçkay et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2008 Nov.

Abstract

A high prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage at hospital readmission among previous MRSA carriers warrants screening and preemptive isolation precautions. The replacement of culture on chromogenic agar with rapid quantitative polymerase chain reaction for readmission screening reduces the number of unnecessary preemptive isolation-days by 54% (from 6.88 to 3.14 isolation-days) and related costs by 45% (from US dollars 113.2 to US dollars 62.1) for patients who test negative for MRSA.

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