Global MRSA alert: calls for community screening
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Rapid screening of carriers of antibiotic-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus must be made a top priority of health systems worldwide. So warned today the scientific co-ordinator of the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (EARSS), Hajo Grundmann, in his conclusions to research into the resurgence and prevalence of methicillin-resistant S aureus (MRSA).