| isolation of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus from the environment in a veterinary teaching hospital. | after recognition of a cluster of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) infection in horses and humans at the ontario veterinary college veterinary teaching hospital, environmental contamination with mrsa was evaluated. a total of 260 environmental surfaces were sampled during periods when mrsa-infected horses were hospitalized, and mrsa was isolated from 25/260 sites (9.6%). the most commonly contaminated sites were stalls housing mrsa-positive horses, but other stalls, medical equ ... | 2004 | 15320581 |
| methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in horses at a veterinary teaching hospital: frequency, characterization, and association with clinical disease. | methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) is an emerging equine pathogen. to attempt to control nosocomial and zoonotic transmission, an mrsa screening program was established for all horses admitted to the ontario veterinary college veterinary teaching hospital, whereby nasal screening swabs were collected at admission, weekly during hospitalization, and at discharge. mrsa was isolated from 120 (5.3%) of 2,283 horses: 61 (50.8%) at the time of admission, 53 (44.2%) during hospitalizati ... | 2006 | 16496939 |
| methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in horses and horse personnel, 2000-2002. | methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) infection was identified in 2 horses treated at a veterinary hospital in 2000, prompting a study of colonization rates of horses and associated persons. seventy-nine horses and 27 persons colonized or infected with mrsa were identified from october 2000 to november 2002; most isolations occurred in a 3-month period in 2002. twenty-seven (34%) of the equine isolates were from the veterinary hospital, while 41 (51%) were from 1 thoroughbred farm i ... | 2005 | 15757559 |