Attitudes of patients, visitors and healthcare workers at a tertiary hospital towards influenza A (H1N1) response measures.

Introduction: We sought to determine the opinions of patients, their visitors and healthcare workers regarding Influenza A (H1N1) response measures instituted within a tertiary hospital in Singapore.

Materials And Methods: This questionnaire study was undertaken from 21 May 2009 to 31 August 2009.

Results: There were 92 respondents, ranging in age from 15 to 77 years.

EMRSA-15 Bacteremia is not Associated with a Worse Outcome Compared with Bacteremia Caused by Multidrug-Resistant MRSA.

EMRSA-15 (ST22-MRSA-IV) is rapidly replacing the endemic ST239 health care-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone in Singapore. A one-year single-centre cohort study of inpatients with MRSA bacteremia was performed to determine if bacteremia caused by EMRSA-15 was associated with worse outcomes compared to bacteremia caused by the endemic ST239 strain. Strains were identified by antibiotypes, and subsequent validation was performed on a selected sample of MRSA strains via pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and staphylococcal chromosome cassette mec typing.

Evolving EMRSA-15 epidemic in Singapore hospitals.

The aim of this study was to determine the extent of EMRSA-15 spread in hospitals in Singapore. Molecular analysis of 197 non-duplicate meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates collected from five acute care public hospitals in Singapore in May 2005 revealed that 66 (33.5%) were EMRSA-15 while 121 (61.

Establishment of ST30 as the predominant clonal type among community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates in Singapore.

The number of infections attributable to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in Singapore is progressively increasing. Most cases in the past 2 years were caused by Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive isolates belonging to sequence type 30, according to multilocus sequence typing. This has clearly become the predominant sequence type among CA-MRSA isolates in Singapore.