Staphylococcus Aureus

High-risk patients who received extended antibiotics after total joint arthroplasty experienced a significant reduction in risk of periprosthetic joint infection, according to published and recently presented results.

High risk patients who received extended antibiotics after total joint arthroplasty experienced a significant reduction in risk of periprosthetic joint infection, according to published and recently presented results.

A previously healthy 10-month-old male is taken to the local ED with fever and congestion for 3 days. He is diagnosed with an upper respiratory tract infection, or URI, and treated symptomatically without antimicrobials.

Antimicrobial cold spray surface coatings performed well in lab experiments, reducing contamination, and could supplement current infection prevention and control measures, researchers said.

Commercial restaurant workers often use sponges and microfiber towels to clean food contact surfaces, but these types of absorbent materials were found to harbor potentially pathogenic organisms for more than 2 weeks, researchers said.

Automatic hand dryers in men’s and women’s public restrooms can harbor and spread bacteria, including Staphylococcus and fecal matter, according to research presented during ASM Microbe, which is being held virtually this year.

Surgical specialty namely, cardiac and orthopedic procedures and the perception of high MRSA prevalence in a facility were the main factors that influenced the prescribing of vancomycin as surgical prophylaxis, according to a study conducted in a Veterans Affairs cohort.

An Apache tribal community in the southwestern United States was found to have a disproportionately high burden of invasive MRSA compared with the general population of the country, suggesting that interventions are “urgently” needed to decrease S. aureus morbidity and mortality in indigenous communities, according to a study in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

A healthy, 3-year-old female was running in her backyard without shoes and impaled her left foot on a nail attached to a board. She was taken to the local ER, where the nail was removed after a radiograph demonstrated that no bone injury was sustained (Figure 1). The patient had documentation of having received her routine 2-, 4- and 6-month immunizations including tetanus, followed by a 4th dose of DTaP at 18 months. She has received no tetanus toxoid since then.

Household environments play a significant role in the spread of MRSA in the community, according to a study of transmission events involving children with community-associated MRSA skin and soft tissue infections.