Illicit drug users, alcoholics, and psychiatric patients: Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization on the border between community and healthcare settings

To the Editor—Even though methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization and infections have been extensively reported among users who inject illicit drugs,1,2 studies addressing other illicit drug users (IDUs),3 alcoholics and psychiatric patients are scarce.4 Those latter groups a...

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Published in:Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2021-12, Vol.42 (12), p.1544-1546
Main Authors: Silvestre, Maíris Alarcão Duarte de Oliveira, Barbosa, Marina, Teixeira, Nathalia Bibiana, Riboli, Danilo Flávio Moraes, de Souza, Matheus Cristovam, da Cunha, Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro de Souza, Fortaleza, Carlos Magno Castelo Branco
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alcoholics
Alcoholism
Cloning
Cocaine
Colonization
Confidence intervals
Delivery of Health Care
Drugs
Epidemiology
Humans
Illicit Drugs
Long term health care
Long-term care
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Patient admissions
Prevalence
Public health
Staphylococcal Infections - epidemiology
Staphylococcus aureus
Staphylococcus infections
Statistical analysis
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Summary:To the Editor—Even though methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization and infections have been extensively reported among users who inject illicit drugs,1,2 studies addressing other illicit drug users (IDUs),3 alcoholics and psychiatric patients are scarce.4 Those latter groups are of special concern when admitted to acute-care or long-term care facilities. Nasal and oropharyngeal swabs were collected from patients upon admission, except for those in long-term care, who had their swabs collected during their hospital stay, which often lasted years. [...]overall S. aureus colonization was similar to that in the general population, but we found relevant rates of MRSA carriage among the study groups.
ISSN:0899-823X
1559-6834
DOI:10.1017/ice.2020.1330