Eurosurveillance
Volume 16, Issue 4, 2011

Cases of community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an asylum seekers centre in Germany, November 2010 (Article)

Dudareva S.* , Barth A. , Paeth K. , Krenz-Weinreich A. , Layer F. , Deleré Y. , Eckmanns T.
  • a European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden, Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
  • b Public Health Department, City of Neumünster, Germany
  • c Public Health Department, City of Neumünster, Germany
  • d Private practice Dres. Krenz-Weinreich and Schulze, Plön, Germany
  • e National Reference Centre for Staphylococci, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany
  • f Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
  • g Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

In an asylum seeker centre in Schleswig-Holstein, a resident was diagnosed with furuncle caused by a Panton-Valentine leukocidine (PVL)-positive community- acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA). As a result of active case finding, 232 of 427 persons (54% of all residents) were screened for MRSA and two further PVL-positive CA-MRSA cases were identified.

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Index Keywords

Germany household Community-Acquired Infections hospitalization refugee Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction human bacterium identification Refugees Staphylococcal Infections middle aged Leukocidins Exotoxins Aged Animals Young Adult Humans Adolescent male female nose smear polymerase chain reaction Contact Tracing Article disease transmission infection control communicable disease Bacterial Toxins adult major clinical study Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Somalia molecular typing Furunculosis Nose agglutination test Panton Valentine leukocidin bacterial colonization bacterial strain Methicillin Resistance methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection
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ISSN: 1025496X
Cited by: 11
Original Language: English