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Risk Factors for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Acquisition in Roommate Contacts of Patients Colonized or Infected With MRSA in an Acute-Care Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Christine Moore ,
Jastej Dhaliwal ,
Agnes Tong ,
Sarah Eden ,
Cindi Wigston ,
Barbara Willey ,
Allison McGeer  and
Mount Sinai Hospital Infection Control Team
Christine Moore
Affiliation:
Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jastej Dhaliwal
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Agnes Tong
Affiliation:
Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sarah Eden
Affiliation:
Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cindi Wigston
Affiliation:
Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Barbara Willey
Affiliation:
Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Allison McGeer*
Affiliation:
Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
*
Room 210, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X5, Canada (amcgeer@mtsinai.on.ca)
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Abstract

Objective.

To identify risk factors for acquisition of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in patients exposed to an MRSA-colonized roommate.

Design.

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting.

A 472-bed acute-care teaching hospital in Toronto, Canada.

Patients.

Inpatients who shared a room between 1996 and 2004 with a patient who had unrecognized MRSA colonization.

Methods.

Exposed roommates were identified from infection-control logs and from results of screening for MRSA in the microbiology database. Completed follow-up was defined as completion of at least 2 sets of screening cultures (swab samples from the nares, the rectum, and skin lesions), with at least 1 set of samples obtained 7–10 days after the last exposure. Chart reviews were performed to compare those who did and did not become colonized with MRSA.

Results.

Of 326 roommates, 198 (61.7%) had completed follow-up, and 25 (12.6%) acquired MRSA by day 7–10 after exposure was recognized, all with strains indistinguishable by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis from those of their roommate. Two (2%) of 101 patients were not colonized at day 7–10 but, with subsequent testing, were identified as being colonized with the same strain as their roommate (one at day 16 and one at day 18 after exposure). A history of alcohol abuse (odds ratio [OR], 9.8 [95% confidence limits {CLs}, 1.8, 53]), exposure to a patient with nosocomially acquired MRSA (OR, 20 [95% CLs, 2.4,171]), increasing care dependency (OR per activity of daily living, 1.7 [95% CLs, 1.1, 2.7]), and having received levofloxacin (OR, 3.6 [95% CLs, 1.1,12]) were associated with MRSA acquisition.

Conclusions.

Roommates of patients with MRSA are at significant risk for becoming colonized. Further study is needed of the impact of hospital antimicrobial formulary decisions on the risk of acquisition of MRSA.

Type
Original Articles
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 7 , July 2008 , pp. 600 - 606
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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