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As of October 19, 2007, there has been 2 found cases of MRSA at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, the extent of the outbreak is unknown and precautions have been taken.
As of October 19, 2007, there has been 2 found cases of MRSA at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, the extent of the outbreak is unknown and precautions have been taken.

On October 19, 2007 there was a small outbreak of 3 cases confirmed at [[Columbia High School]] in [[Maplewood, New Jersey]]. Since then an additional four cases have been confirmed, and threat of a school shutdown has been placed if the outbreak is not stopped.


There have also been several outbreaks in Ravenswood West Virginia, four confirmed, and two un confirmed. All victims are football players.
There have also been several outbreaks in Ravenswood West Virginia, four confirmed, and two un confirmed. All victims are football players.

Revision as of 21:02, 24 October 2007

"MRSA" redirects here. For other uses, see MRSA (disambiguation).

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Electron micrograph of MRSA
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Firmicutes
Class:
Bacilli
Order:
Bacillales
Family:
Staphylococcaceae
Genus:
Staphylococcus
Species:
S. aureus
Binomial name
Staphylococcus aureus
Rosenbach 1884

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), also known as oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA), multiple-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, CA-MRSA (community-acquired MRSA) and HA-MRSA (hospital-acquired MRSA),[1] is a biological agent responsible for difficult-to-treat infections in humans. (MSSA is Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus.) MRSA is a variation of Staphylococcus aureus, a common bacterium, which has evolved the ability to survive treatment with beta-lactam antibiotics, including penicillin and methicillin.[2] The organism is especially troublesome in hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infections. In hospitals, patients may be found who have open wounds and weakened immune systems and who are therefore at great risk for infection. Hospital staff who do not follow proper sanitary procedures may inadvertently transfer bacterial colonies from patient to patient.

MRSA was discovered in 1961 in the UK, but it is now found worldwide. MRSA is popularly termed (in the press) a superbug, or staph infection connection.

Microbiology

Staphylococcus aureus became methicillin resistant by acquiring a mecA gene, usually carried on a larger piece of DNA called a staphylococcal cassette chromosome SCCmec. Expression of mecA yields PBP2a, a penicillin-binding protein with reduced affinity for β-lactam antibiotic binding.[3] Penicillin-binding proteins are necessary for correct synthesis of the bacterial cell wall, and when they are blocked by penicillin, the cell wall is incorrectly formed, and the cell is liable to lyse. PBP2a allows the bacterium to synthesize cell wall normally in the presence of methicillin.

Some strains of S. aureus over-express β-lactamase and are resistant to oxacillin and, rarely, methicillin, despite being mecA negative. Beta-lactamase is an enzyme that cleaves the penicillin molecule at its cyclic ring, and second-generation penicillins (like methicillin) were specifically designed to resist beta-lactamase activity.

Recent outbreaks of CA-MRSA appear to be caused by isolates that also carry genes for Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL),[4] a toxin that is known to cause lysis of white blood cells. It has been shown that PVL contributes to severe hemolytic and necrotic pneumonia in children,[5] but its role in severe skin and soft-tissue infection is currently debated.[6]

Morbidity and mortality

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It has been difficult to quantify the degree of morbidity and mortality attributable to MRSA. A nationwide study in 2005 showed that patients with S. aureus infection, on average, had three times the length of hospital stay (14.3 vs. 4.5 days), incurred three times the total cost ($48,824 vs $14,141), and experienced five times the risk of in-hospital death (11.2% vs 2.3%) than inpatients without this infection.[7] In a meta-analysis of 31 studies, Cosgrove et al,[8] concluded that MRSA bacteremia is associated with increased mortality as compared with MSSA bacteremia (odds ratio = 1.93; 95% CI = 1.54±2.42; P[9] In addition, Wyllie et al. report a death rate of 34% within 30 days among patients infected with MRSA, a rate similar to the death rate of 27% seen among MSSA-infected patients.[10]

It has been argued that the observed increased mortality among MRSA-infected patients may be the result of the increased underlying morbidity of these patients. Several studies, however, including one by Blot and colleagues, that have adjusted for underlying disease still found MRSA bacteremia to have a higher attributable mortality than MSSA bacteremia.[11]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently calculated that MRSA is responsible for 94,000 serious infections and nearly 19,000 deaths per year in the United States. These numbers would make MRSA responsible for more deaths each year than AIDS.[12]

A death occurred on Monday, October 15, 2007, when 17-year old Ashton Bonds, a student at Staunton River High School in central Virginia, died after MRSA infected areas around his liver, heart, and other muscles and organs. Bedford County Public Schools responded by shutting down all 21 of its schools for cleaning.[13][14]

Clinical presentation and concerns

S. aureus most commonly colonizes the anterior nares (the nostrils), although the respiratory tract, open wounds, intravenous catheters, and urinary tract are also potential sites for infection. Healthy individuals may carry MRSA asymptomatically for periods ranging from a few weeks to many years. Patients with compromised immune systems are at a significantly greater risk of symptomatic secondary infection.

According to Betsy McCaughey, founder of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, MRSA can be detected by swabbing the nostrils of patients and isolating the bacteria found inside. Combined with extra sanitary measures for those in contact with infected patients, screening patients admitted to hospitals has been found to be effective in minimizing the spread of MRSA in hospitals in Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands.[15]

Many people who are symptomatic present with pus-filled boils and occasionally with rashes.

In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidelines on 19 October 2006, citing the need for additional research, but declined to recommend such screening.[16][17]

Treatment

CA-MRSA often results in abscess formation that requires incision and drainage. Before the spread of MRSA into the community, abscesses were not considered contagious because it was assumed that infection required violation of skin integrity and the introduction of staphylococci from normal skin colonization. However, newly emerging CA-MRSA is transmissible (similar, but with very important differences) from hospital-acquired MRSA. CA-MRSA is less likely than other forms of MRSA to cause cellulitis.

Both CA-MRSA and HA-MRSA are resistant to traditional anti-staphylococcal beta-lactam antibiotics, such as cephalexin. CA-MRSA has a greater spectrum of antimicrobial susceptibility, including to sulfa drugs, tetracyclines, and clindamycin. HA-MRSA is resistant even to these antibiotics and often is susceptible only to vancomycin. Newer drugs, such as linezolid (belonging to the newer oxazolidinones class), may be effective against both CA-MRSA and HA-MRSA.

Vancomycin and teicoplanin are glycopeptide antibiotics used to treat MRSA infections.[18] Teicoplanin is a structural congener of vancomycin that has a similar activity spectrum but a longer half-life (t½).[19] Because the oral absorption of vancomycin and teicoplanin is very low, these agents must be administered intravenously to control systemic infections.[20] Treatment of MRSA infection with vancomyin can be complicated, due to its inconvenient route of administration. Moreover, many clinicians believe that the efficacy of vancomycin against MRSA is inferior to that of anti-staphylococcal beta-lactam antibiotics against MSSA.[21][22]

Several newly discovered strains of MRSA show antibiotic resistance even to vancomycin and teicoplanin. These new evolutions of the MRSA bacterium have dubbed vancomycin intermediate-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VISA).[23][24] Linezolid, quinupristin/dalfopristin, daptomycin, and tigecycline are used to treat more severe infections that do not respond to glycopeptides such as vancomycin.[25] MRSA infections can be treated with oral agents, including linezolid, rifampicin+fusidic acid, rifampicin+fluoroquinolone, pristinamycin, co-trimoxazole (trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole), doxycycline or minocycline, and clindamycin.[26]

On 18 May 2006, a team of researchers from Merck Pharmaceuticals reported in Nature that they had discovered an entirely new type of antibiotic, called platensimycin, and had demonstrated its successful use against MRSA.[27][28]

An entirely different and promising approach is phage therapy (e.g., at the Tbilisi Institute in Georgia), which has a reported efficacy against up to 95% of tested Staphylococcus isolates.[29]

It has been reported that maggot therapy to treat MRSA infection has been successful. Studies in diabetic patients reported significantly shorter treatment times than those achieved with standard treatments.[30][31][32] Maggot therapy is considered new by 21st-century Americans, but it has been used before, before antibiotics were discovered. It is now used only when the latest "miracle Drugs" have failed. [citation needed]

Prevention and infection-control strategies

Alcohol has proven to be an effective topical sanitizer against MRSA. Quaternary ammonium can be used in conjunction with alcohol to increase the duration of the sanitizing action. The prevention of nosocomial infections involve routine and terminal cleaning. Non-flammable Alcohol Vapor in Carbon Dioxide systems (NAV-CO2 systems) have an advantage, as they do not attack metals or plastics used in medical environments and do not contribute to antibacterial resistance.

Because MRSA can survive on surfaces and fabrics, including privacy curtains or garments worn by care providers, complete surface sanitation is necessary to eliminate MRSA in areas where patients are recovering from invasive procedures. Vaporized sanitizers reach areas missed by traditional cleaning methods, particularly in ICU and ER units. Ambulances, police vehicles, artificial-turf surfaces, and sports equipment are also areas where MRSA can be found. Proper application of ozone gas has proven to be very effective in destroying the bacteria in protective sports equipment, such as is worn in contact sports like football and hockey. The National Association of Athletic Directors (NATA) recommends that cleaning of athletic gear be done on a regular basis.[33]

At the end of August 2004, after a successful pilot scheme to tackle MRSA, the UK National Health Service announced its Clean Your Hands campaign. Wards will be required to ensure that alcohol-based hand rubs are placed near all beds so that staff can hand wash more regularly. It is thought that if this cuts infection by just 1%, the plan will pay for itself many times over. Health-care workers are reportedly largely neglecting the simple, yet effective, practice of hand-washing,[citation needed] despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s report that hand-washing alone would save the lives of roughly 30,000 patients per year in the US, not from MRSA alone, but from all nosocomial infections.

Mathematical models describe one way in which a loss of infection control can occur after measures for screening and isolation seem to be effective for years, as happened in the UK. In the "search and destroy" strategy that was employed by all UK hospitals until the mid 1990s, all patients with MRSA were immediately isolated, and all staff were screened for MRSA and were prevented from working until they had completed a course of eradication therapy that was proven to work. Loss of control occurs because colonised patients are discharged back into the community and then readmitted: when the number of colonised patients in the community reaches a certain threshold, the "search and destroy" strategy is overwhelmed.[34] One of the few countries not to have been overwhelmed by MRSA is the Netherlands: an important part of the success of the Dutch strategy may have been to attempt eradication of carriage upon discharge from hospital.[35] However, the number of MRSA infected people in the Netherlands is currently rising, because of numerous infections in pig farms. The MRSA strain is carried from pig to human. Very recently, the Dutch food association has discovered strains of the MRSA bacterium on pork meat.[citation needed] These strains were able to infect humans. For countries that have been overwhelmed by MRSA (such as the U.S. and UK), the Dutch model suggests that a coördinated reinstatement of search-and-destroy measures can still bring MRSA under control,[35] but given the enormous investment in facilities that would be required others have suggested that for all practical purposes the point of no return has already been passed.[36]

Epidemiology

Worldwide, an estimated 2 billion people carry some form of S. aureus; of these, up to 53 million (2.7% of carriers) are thought to carry MRSA.[37] In the United States, 95 million carry S. aureus in their noses; of these, 2.5 million (2.6% of carriers) carry MRSA.[38] A population review conducted in three U.S. communities showed the annual incidence of CA-MRSA during 2001–2002 to be 18–25.7/100,000; most CA-MRSA isolates were associated with clinically relevant infections, and 23% of patients required hospitalization.[39]

Cystic fibrosis patients are often treated with multiple antibiotics, which must be administered in a hospital setting. Frequent hospital visits can increase exposure to MRSA, potentially increasing the rate of life-threatening MRSA pneumonia in this group. The risk of cross-colonization has led to the increased use of isolation protocols among these patients. In a hospital setting, patients who have received fluoroquinolones are more likely to become colonized with MRSA;[40] this is probably because many circulating strains of MRSA are fluoroquinolone resistant, which means that MRSA is able to colonize patients whose normal skin flora have been cleared of non-resistant S. aureus by fluoroquinolones.

In the United States, there have been increasing numbers of reports of outbreaks of MRSA colonization and infection through skin contact in locker rooms and gymnasiums, even among healthy populations. MRSA is also becoming a problem in pediatric settings,[41] including hospital nurseries.[42] A 2007 study found that 4.6% of patients in U.S. health care facilities were infected or colonized with MRSA.[43]

MRSA causes as many as 20% of Staphylococcus aureus infections in populations that use intravenous drugs. These out-of-hospital strains, or CA-MRSA, are more easily treated, though more virulent, than HA-MRSA. CA-MRSA apparently did not evolve de novo in the community but represents a hybrid between MRSA that spread from the hospital environment and strains that were once easily treatable in the community. Most of the hybrid strains also acquired a factor that increases their virulence, resulting in the development of deep-tissue infections from minor scrapes and cuts, as well as many cases of fatal pneumonia.[44]

As of early 2005, the number of deaths in the United Kingdom attributed to MRSA has been estimated by various sources to lie in the area of 3,000 per year.[45] Staphylococcus bacteria account for almost half of all UK hospital infections. The issue of MRSA infections in hospitals has recently been a major political issue in the UK, playing a significant role in the debates over health policy in the United Kingdom general election held in 2005.

During the summer of 2005, researchers in The Netherlands discovered that three pig farmers or their families were infected by MRSA bacteria that were also found on their pigs.[46] Researchers from Radboud University Nijmegen are now investigating the extent of the MRSA bacteria in pigs and whether it will become characterized among the zoonoses.

It was recently observed that MRSA can replicate inside of Acanthamoeba, increasing MRSA numbers 1,000-fold.[47] Because Acanthamoeba can form cysts that are easily picked up by air currents, these organisms can spread MRSA via airborne routes. Whether control of Acanthamoeba in the clinical environment will also help to control MRSA remains an area for research.

Strains

In the UK, the most common strains of MRSA are EMRSA15 and EMRSA16.[48] EMRSA16 is the best described epidemiologically; it originated in Kettering, England, and the full genomic sequence of this strain has been published.[49] EMRSA16 has been found to be identical to the ST36:USA200 strain, which circulates in the United States, and to carry the SCCmec type II, enterotoxin A and toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 genes.[50] Under the new international typing system, this strain is now called MRSA252. It is not entirely certain why this strain has become so successful, whereas previous strains have failed to persist. One explanation is the characteristic pattern of antibiotic susceptibility. Both the EMRSA15 and EMRSA16 strains are resistant to erythromycin and ciprofloxacin. It is known that Staphylococcus aureus can survive intracellularly,[51] and these are precisely the antibiotics that best penetrate intracellularly; it may be that these strains of S. aureus are therefore able to exploit an intracellular niche.

In the United States, most cases of CA-MRSA are caused by a CC8 strain designated ST8:USA300, which carries mec type IV, Panton-Valentine leukocidin, and enterotoxins Q and K.[50] Other community-associated strains of MRSA are ST8:USA500 and ST59:USA1000.

On October 17, 2007, there were 2 cases reported in two Connecticut schools. Both Newtown High School in Sandy Hook, Connecticut and Westport High School in Westport are taking precautions. Newtown High School would not comment about the problem, nor let students talk about the issue.

On October 18, 2007, there was 1 case reported at East Haven High School in East Haven, Connecticut. The next day, almost half the students in the school either did not attend or left early due to fear of MRSA.

As of October 19, 2007, there has been 2 found cases of MRSA at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, the extent of the outbreak is unknown and precautions have been taken.

On October 19, 2007 there was a small outbreak of 3 cases confirmed at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey. Since then an additional four cases have been confirmed, and threat of a school shutdown has been placed if the outbreak is not stopped.

There have also been several outbreaks in Ravenswood West Virginia, four confirmed, and two un confirmed. All victims are football players.

On October 21, 2007, at the Howell Middle School, a student was reported with a case of MRSA. A lett was sent home with all students and cleanup of the school has taken place. They will hold a meeting on October 25, 2007 on the topic of MRSA with the public at the Howell Middle School.

On October 22, 2007, at the Logan Township, NJ Elementary school a student was reported with an case of MRSA. A letter was sent home with all students, and cleanup of the school is taking place. A brochure on how to wash your hands was included.

On October 22, 2007, at the Jackson Memorial High School in Jackson NJ, a student Cheerleader was reported with a case of MRSA. A letter was sent home with all students in the Township. They are also in the process of cleaning the Gym Mats to prevent MRSA.

In Montgomery County, Maryland there have been 14 reported cases among students, a majority who were athletes.

On October 23rd, 2007 a student at Glastonbury High School in Glastonbury, CT was found to have MRSA. A student at Anchor Bay High School, Anchor Bay, MI was also found to have MRSA.

Also on October 23rd, 2007 a student at Sachem High School East in Farmingville, New York was diagnosed with MRSA. A letter was sent home informing parents of this. The student's name hasn't been released.

Also on October 23rd, 2007 a student at Sout View High School in Hope Mills, North Carolina was diagnosed with MRSA. A letter was sent home informing parents of this. Also on Ocutber 25,2007, 2 cases of MRSA have been reported at John F. Kenndy in Utica, New York

See also

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Further reading

  • Carson CF, Cookson BD, Farrelly HD, Riley TV (1995). "Susceptibility of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to the essential oil of Melaleuca alternifolia". J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 35 (3): 421–4. PMID 7782258.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Edwards-Jones V, Buck R, Shawcross SG, Dawson MM, Dunn K (2004). "The effect of essential oils on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus using a dressing model". Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries. 30 (8): 772–7. doi:10.1016/j.burns.2004.06.006. PMID 15555788.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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