Cases of community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an asylum seekers centre in Germany, November 2010

S Dudareva; A Barth; K Paeth; A Krenz-Weinreich; F Layer; Y Deleré; T Eckmanns

doi:10.2807/ese.16.04.19777-en

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Cases of community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an asylum seekers centre in Germany, November 2010
S Dudareva^1,2 , A Barth³ , K Paeth³ , A Krenz-Weinreich⁴ , F Layer⁵ , Y Deleré⁶ , T Eckmanns⁶
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Affiliations: ¹ European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden ² Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany ³ Public Health Department, City of Neumünster, Germany ⁴ Private practice Dres. Krenz-Weinreich and Schulze, Plön, Germany ⁵ National Reference Centre for Staphylococci, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany ⁶ Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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Citation style for this article: Dudareva S, Barth A, Paeth K, Krenz-Weinreich A, Layer F, Deleré Y, Eckmanns T. Cases of community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an asylum seekers centre in Germany, November 2010. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(4):pii=19777. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.16.04.19777-en Received: 20 Jan 2011

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Abstract

In an asylum seeker centre in Schleswig-Holstein, a resident was diagnosed with furuncle caused by a Panton-Valentine leukocidine (PVL)-positive community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA). As a result of active case finding, 232 of 427 persons (54% of all residents) were screened for MRSA and two further PVL-positive CA-MRSA cases were identified.