Community-associated methicillin-resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, epidemiology and burden on hospitals.

ABSTRACT: This study presents surveillance data from 1 July 2003 to 30 June 2023 for community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) notified in the Kimberley region of Western Australia (WA) and describes the region's changing CA-MRSA epidemiology over this period. A subset of CA-MRSA notifications from 1 July 2003 to 30 June 2015 were linked to inpatient and emergency department records. Episodes of care (EOC) during which a positive CA-MRSA specimen was collected within the first 48 hours of admission and emergency presentations (EP) during which a positive CA-MRSA specimen was collected on the same day as presentation were selected and analysed further. Notification rates of CA-MRSA in the Kimberley region of WA increased from 250 cases per 100,000 populations i

SUBMITTER: Bloomfield LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11626457 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature