The nosocomial transmission rate of animal-associated ST398 meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
The nosocomial transmission rate of animal-associated ST398 meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
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DOI:
10.1098/rsif.2010.0349
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发表时间:
2011-04-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Bonten, Marc J. M.
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作者:
Bootsma, Martin C. J.;Wassenberg, Marjan W. M.;Bonten, Marc J. M.
The global epidemiology of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is characterized by different clonal lineages with different epidemiological behaviour. There are pandemic hospital clones (hospital-associated (HA-) MRSA), clones mainly causing community-acquired infections (community-associated (CA-) MRSA, mainly USA300) and an animal-associated clone (ST398) emerging in European and American livestock with subsequent spread to humans. Nosocomial transmission capacities (R-A) of these different MRSA types have never been quantified. Using two large datasets from MRSA outbreaks in Dutch hospitals (dataset 1, the UMC Utrecht for 144 months; dataset 2, 51 hospitals for six months) and a recently developed mathematical model, we determined the genotype-specific R-A for ST398 and non-ST398 isolates (categorized as HA-MRSA), using observational data, the detection rate of MRSA carriage and the discharge rate from hospital as the input. After detection of 42 MRSA index cases in dataset 1 (all non-ST398 MRSA) 5076 people were screened, yielding 30 secondary cases. In dataset 2, 75 index cases (51 non-ST398 MRSA and 24 ST398) resulted in 7892 screened individuals and 56 and three secondary cases for non-ST398 MRSA and ST398, respectively. The ratio between discharge and the detection rate was 2.7. R-A values (95% confidence interval (CI)) were 0.68 (0.47-0.95) for non-ST398 MRSA in dataset 1, 0.93 (0.71-1.21) for non-ST398 MRSA in dataset 2 and 0.16 (0.04-0.40) for ST398. The R-A ratio between non-ST398 MRSA and ST398 was 5.90 (95% CI 2.24-23.81). ST398 is 5.9 times less transmissible than non-ST398 MRSA in Dutch hospitals, which may allow less stringent transmission-control measures for ST398 MRSA.