Lindsey Lesher

TL;DR: Resistance to methicillin in S. aureus was independently associated with increased costs and effective antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention programs are needed to prevent these costly infections.

TL;DR: TSS incidence remained stable across the surveillance period of 2000–2006 and compared to past population-based estimates in the 1980s, and tst-1 continues to be the superantigen associated with the majority of menstrual cases.

TL;DR: This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which found that the percentage of IPD nonmeningitis S. pneumoniae isolates categorized as susceptible, intermediate, and resistant to penicillin changed from 74.7%, 15.0%, and 10.3% under the former breakpoints to 93.2, 5.6, and 1.2%, respectively, under the new breakpoints.

TL;DR: Only 13% of case-patients had MRSA nasal colonization on an average of 69 days after their initial MRSA infection, and CA-MRSA colonization may be short-lived or may occur at non-nasal sites.

TL;DR: The specific factors that underlie the association between census tract-level socioeconomic measures and MRSA incidence, which may include modifiable social and biological factors, should be elucidated to define strategies for reducing racial disparities in community-associated MRSA rates.