Publications by Kiersten Andrews

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Detection of Staphylococcus aureus including MRSA on environmental surfaces in a jail setting.

Marilyn Felkner Kiersten Andrews Leanne H Field Jeffery P Taylor Tamara Baldwin

J Correct Health Care

October 2009

We examined jail environmental surfaces to explore whether they might serve as reservoirs of viable methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). We swabbed 132 surfaces, inoculated primary and secondary mannitol salts and oxacillin-resistant screening agar, and used API tests to identify S. aureus and E-tests to determine methicillin/oxacillin resistance.

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