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Development of Mupirocin Resistance Among Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus After Widespread Use of Nasal Mupirocin Ointment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mark A. Miller ,
Andre Dascal ,
Joseph Portnoy  and
Jack Mendelson
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Abstract

All methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains isolated from colonized or infected patients in a 625-bed public teaching hospital during an epidemic, and for 3 years thereafter, underwent susceptibility testing to mupirocin. Mupirocin resistance among MRSA increased markedly over this period (1990, 2.7%; 1991, 8.0%; 1992, 61.5%; 1993, 65%) in association with increased use of mupirocin ointment as an adjunct to infection control measures.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 17 , Issue 12 , December 1996 , pp. 811 - 813
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996

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