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Benefits and Drawbacks of Universal Surveillance of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
TO THE EDITOR:
I read with interest the ambitious and informative study by Robicsek and colleagues (1). The authors have clearly articulated the positive effect of their methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) control strategy, but they ignore the potential unintended consequences of this approach.
First, the title of the study is misleading because this intervention involved much more than universal MRSA surveillance. A key component of their second intervention period was decolonization with mupirocin and chlorhexidine. Among several reasons that …
