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    Assessing the role of undetected colonization and isolation precautions in reducing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission in intensive care units
    (2010-02) Kypraios, Theodore; O'Neill, Philip D.; Huang, Susan S.; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.; Cooper, Ben S; Kypraios, Theodore; Mahidol University. Faculty of Tropical Medicine
    BACKGROUND: Screening and isolation are central components of hospital methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) control policies. Their prevention of patient-to-patient spread depends on minimizing undetected and unisolated MRSA-positive... patient days. Estimating these MRSA-positive patient days and the reduction in transmission due to isolation presents a major methodological challenge, but is essential for assessing both the value of existing control policies and the potential benefit
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    Estimating the effectiveness of isolation and decolonization measures in reducing transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospital general wards.
    (2013-06-01) Worby, Colin J.; Jeyaratnam, Dakshika; Robotham, Julie V.; Kypraios, Theodore; O’Neill, Philip D.; Angelis, Daniela De; French, Gary; Cooper, Ben S.; O’Neill, Philip D.; Mahidol University. Faculty of Tropical Medicine. Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit.
    Infection control for hospital pathogens such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) often takes the form of a package of interventions, including the use of patient isolation and decolonization treatment. Such interventions... in MRSA transmission in hospital general wards. These findings provide support for active methods of MRSA control, but further research is needed to determine the relative importance of isolation and decolonization in preventing transmission.