2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2020.e00325
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Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage among healthcare workers, inpatients and caretakers in the Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

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“…The main causes of acute nosocomial infections are medical procedures, bad adherence of patients to prescribed antibiotics, inadequate hospital management and patient health status [ 5 ]. Common sources of infection include germ carriage by medical staff or patients and surface contamination [ 6 ]. The hospital environment provokes the selection and evolution of bacterial clonal lines with increased virulence and multidrug resistance [ 7 , 8 ].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…The main causes of acute nosocomial infections are medical procedures, bad adherence of patients to prescribed antibiotics, inadequate hospital management and patient health status [ 5 ]. Common sources of infection include germ carriage by medical staff or patients and surface contamination [ 6 ]. The hospital environment provokes the selection and evolution of bacterial clonal lines with increased virulence and multidrug resistance [ 7 , 8 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It was also in agreement with a study conducted by Wangai et al, 2019, that showed the prevalence of MRSA was between 31% and 42% in Uganda.However, the ndings contrast with studies done in Mbale Regional Referral Hospital Eastern, Uganda by(Thembo et al, 2020), that indicated the prevalence of MRSA to be 13.3% among HCWs and patients.The prevalence of MRSA was found to be 31.49% in patients, 29.7% in HCWs, and 28% among patients' caretakers. This correlated with(Ojulong et al, 2008) who conducted a study and indicated the prevalence of MRSA to be 31.5% in patients in Kampala International teaching Hospital, and(Walana et al, 2020) who conducted studies in Ghana that indicated a prevalence of MRSA nasal carriage in Inpatients to be 30.0%, HCWs 27.8% and caretakers 10%.According to the study, antibiotic susceptibility patterns indicated that MRSA was more susceptible to Clindamycin, Ceftaroline, Linezolid, Chloramphenicol, Cipro oxacin and Tetracycline. This was corroborated by(Holmes et al, 2015),(Ojulong et al, 2009) that reported Clindamycin, Ceftaroline, Teicoplanin and Telavancin are effective drugs that can be used to manage MRSA cases.…”
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confidence: 53%
“…Generally, we found higher rate of drug resistance for MRSA than MSSA isolates and among HCWs than administrative staff (p-value <0.05), which is in line with other studies. 26 , 32 , 33 This finding underscores that HCWs are exposed to more resistant strains than administrative staff who had no or very limited contact with patients.…”
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confidence: 86%