MRSA Expert Consensus Documents, 2009
These are the proceedings of three workshops that took place during the MRSA Consensus Conference sponsored by the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (13–14 December 2007).
The authors are practitioners in the field with considerable experience in the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infection (HCAI), including MRSA.
Although it should be clearly stated that expert reports and consensus based on clinical experience should be explicitly labelled as low-quality evidence, there remains a role for expert opinion while better systems for rating the quality of evidence and the strength of existing recommendations are developed and adopted.
Editorial
Cauda R, Garau, J. New insights concerning methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus disease (editorial). Clin Microbiol Infect 2009 Feb;15(2):109-11.
Workshop 1
Struelens MJ, Hawkey PM, French GL, Witte W, Tacconelli E. Laboratory tools and strategies for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus screening, surveillance and typing: state of the art and unmet needs. Clin Microbiol Infect 2009 Feb;15(2):112-9.
Workshop 2
Humphreys H, Grundmann H, Skov R, Lucet JC, Cauda R. Prevention and control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Clin Microbiol Infect 2009 Feb;15(2):120-4.
Workshop 3
Garau J, Bouza E, Chastre J, Gudiol F, Harbarth S. Management of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections. Clin Microbiol Infect 2009 Feb;15(2):125-36.
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