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Staphylococcus aureus Nasal Colonization in a Nursing Home: Eradication With Mupirocin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Jean E. Cederna ,
Margaret S. Terpenning ,
Mark Ensberg ,
Suzanne F. Bradley  and
Carol A. Kauffman
Jean E. Cederna
Affiliation:
Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Geriatrics and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Margaret S. Terpenning
Affiliation:
Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Geriatrics and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Mark Ensberg
Affiliation:
Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Geriatrics and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Suzanne F. Bradley
Affiliation:
Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Geriatrics and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Carol A. Kauffman*
Affiliation:
Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Geriatrics and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
*
Veterans Administration Medical Center, 2215 Fuller Rd., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105
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Abstract

Recent reports have emphasized an increase in both infection and colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in institutionalized older patients. We studied whether or not local treatment with mupirocinointment could eliminate nasal colonization with S aureus. A total of 102 patients in a Veterans Administration nursing home were screened for S aureus nasal colonization. Thirty-nine patients (38.2%) were colonized, 18 with methicillin-sensitive Saureus (MSSA) and 21 with MRSA. Almost half of all colonized patients were in the most dependent functional category and there was a significant association of MRSA colonization, but not MSSA colonization, with poor functional status. Colonized patients were treated with mupirocin ointment applied to the anterior nares twice daily for seven days. After treatment, MSSA persisted in only two patients and MRSA in only one patient; thus, nasal colonization was eliminated in 91.4% of colonized patients. At one month and two months follow-up, 11 patients became transiently recolonized and three became persistently recolonized with S aureus. Mupirocin was well tolerated with no side effects noted. Mupirocin ointment may be useful in controlling nasal colonization with S aureus in the nursing home setting.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 13 - 16
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1990

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