Holly A. Hill

TL;DR: Many persons in the United States are colonized with S. aureus; prevalence rates differ demographically, and MRSA colonization prevalence, although low nationally in 2001-2002, may vary with demographic and organism characteristics.

TL;DR: The National Hospital Discharge Survey was used to calculate the number of US hospital discharges listing S. aureus–specific diagnoses, defined as those having at least 1 International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9 code specific for S.aureus infection.

TL;DR: This study studied the relationship between institutional characteristics (such as rates of nosocomial infection or antimicrobial use) and the prevalence of VRE in adult ICUs and questioned the importance of reducing vancomycin use in hospitalized populations as a control measure to reduce VRE.

TL;DR: Increases in resistance prevalence were significant only in isolates from patients outside intensive-care units (ICU) and are of concern; differences in factors present outside ICUs, such as excessive quinolone use or inadequate infection-control practices, may explain the observed trends.

TL;DR: In this study, antimicrobial cycling did not result in a significant change in enteric acquisition of resistant Gram-negative bacteria among intensive care unit patients.