Incidence of MRSA and Hospital infection on the Otolaryngological ward

Chon, Kyong-Myong; Wang, Soo-Geun; Goh, Eui-Kyung; Roh, Hwan-Jung; Lee, Byung-Joo; Son, Han-Chul

doi:10.35420/jcohns.1997.8.1.102

J Clin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1997; 8(1):102-107

pISSN: 1225-0244, eISSN: 2713-833X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35420/jcohns.1997.8.1.102

원저

이비인후과 병동에서의 MRSA의 감염

전경명¹, 왕수건¹, 고의경¹, 노환중¹, 이병주¹, 손한철^*

Incidence of MRSA and Hospital infection on the Otolaryngological ward

Kyong-Myong Chon¹, Soo-Geun Wang¹, Eui-Kyung Goh¹, Hwan-Jung Roh¹, Byung-Joo Lee¹, Han-Chul Son^*

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¹부산대학교 의과대학 이비인후과 학교실

^*임상 병리학교실

¹Department of Otolaryngology & Clinical Pathology, College of Medicine, Pusan National University

^*Department of Otolaryngology & Clinical Pathology

© Copyright 1997 The Busan, Ulsan, Gyeoungnam Branch of Korean Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: May 31, 2020

ABSTRACT

There are many immunocompromised patients who are neonate, old age, and malignant patients with or without chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy in the hospital. Mathicillin resistance Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an important hospital pathogen and its incidence is increasing state in korean hospitals and several other countries. For recent several years, coagulase-negative Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has recognized as the cause of many infective hospital pathogen. Prevalence of MRSA and CNS was conducted on 60 inpatients ad 25 medical personnel on the otolaryngological ward during April to Jun, 1994.

Following results were lobtained.

In impatients, prevalence of MRSA was 4 of the 108 strains (3.7%), CNS, 26 of the 108 strains (25.2%).
In medical personnel, prevalence of MRSA was no detection, Staphylococcus aureus, 8 of the 50 strain (16.0%), CNS, 38 of the 50 strains (76.0%).
Among isolated CNS strains from medical personnel, resistance to penicillin was 88%, Oxacillin, 48%.

Our results show that pervalence of MRSA is low rate but CNS is relative high rate in the both groups.

Keywords: Hospital infectin; MRSA; CNS