Control of spread of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Burns Units.

Results of four years' studies from a number of hospitals in Kenya have shown that nosocomial infections in burns units are due to Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Through chromosomal DNA and plasmid DNA, the stain is highly resistant to sulphonamide ointment and other antibiotics. 90% of patients admitted in burns units get colonized or infected with MRSA.

Enterotoxin-like factors of Aeromonas species isolated in Kenya.

Three out of thirteen Aeromonas strains tested have a heat-labile enterotoxin-like factor which does not cross-react with cholera toxin serologically, but evokes fluid accumulation in the gut of infant mouse, and causes Chinese Hamster Ovary cell elongation.