The Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infection Controls: A Review

Jia-Pu Zhang

《Review of Bioinformatics and Biometrics》 2卷4期 (2013/12) Pp. 83-87

並列摘要

Multi-resistant organisms (MROs), the bacteria that are resistant to a number of different antibiotics, have been very popular around the world in recent years. They are very difficult to treat but highly infectious to humans. MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) is one of the MROs. It is believed that in 2007 more people died of MRSA than that of AIDS worldwide. In Australia 〞there are about 2000 people per year who have a bloodstream infection with the MRSA germ and the vast majority of those get them from health care procedure〞 (Nader, 2005). It has been acknowledged as a significant challenge to Australian hospitals for MRSA infection control. Nursing professionals are in urgent need of the study of MRSA nosocomial infection controls. This review provided insight into the hand washing and isolation infection-control strategies for MRSA. Electronic searches were undertaken of Medine, CINAHL, Health source was from Nursing/Academic, internurse.com, Meditext and Google Advanced Search. Primary search words and phrases such as infection control, Multi-resistant organisms, MRSA, hand hygiene, hand wash, alcohol based handrub, isolation and environment control were used. The important technologies on those two aspects worldwide were well surveyed, compared, contrasted, and discussed. The review was aimed at a complete survey on the hand washing and isolation technologies of infection controls for MRSA and trying to provide some possible recommendations for Australian hospitals.

並列關鍵字

Multiple Resistant Organisms (MROs) ； Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) ； MRSA Infection Control ； Hand Washing Infection Control ； Isolation Infection Control