Biomaterial Database

Is it time to stop searching for MRSA? Stop the ritual of tracing colonised people. 1997

E L Teare, and S P Barrett

Chelmsford Public Health Laboratory.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D003428	Cross Infection	Any infection which a patient contracts in a health-care institution.	Hospital Infections,Nosocomial Infections,Health Care Associated Infection,Health Care Associated Infections,Healthcare Associated Infections,Infection, Cross,Infections, Hospital,Infections, Nosocomial,Cross Infections,Healthcare Associated Infection,Hospital Infection,Infection, Healthcare Associated,Infection, Hospital,Infection, Nosocomial,Infections, Cross,Infections, Healthcare Associated,Nosocomial Infection
D004352	Drug Resistance, Microbial	The ability of microorganisms, especially bacteria, to resist or to become tolerant to chemotherapeutic agents, antimicrobial agents, or antibiotics. This resistance may be acquired through gene mutation or foreign DNA in transmissible plasmids (R FACTORS).	Antibiotic Resistance,Antibiotic Resistance, Microbial,Antimicrobial Resistance, Drug,Antimicrobial Drug Resistance,Antimicrobial Drug Resistances,Antimicrobial Resistances, Drug,Drug Antimicrobial Resistance,Drug Antimicrobial Resistances,Drug Resistances, Microbial,Resistance, Antibiotic,Resistance, Drug Antimicrobial,Resistances, Drug Antimicrobial
D006113	United Kingdom	Country in northwestern Europe including Great Britain and the northern one-sixth of the island of Ireland, located between the North Sea and north Atlantic Ocean. The capital is London.	Great Britain,Isle of Man
D006761	Hospitals	Institutions with an organized medical staff which provide medical care to patients.	Hospital
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D013203	Staphylococcal Infections	Infections with bacteria of the genus STAPHYLOCOCCUS.	Infections, Staphylococcal,Staphylococcus aureus Infection,Staphylococcal Infection,Staphylococcus aureus Infections
D016106	Methicillin Resistance	Non-susceptibility of a microbe to the action of METHICILLIN, a semi-synthetic penicillin derivative.	Methicillin-Resistant,Methicillin Resistant,Resistance, Methicillin
D016358	Contact Tracing	Identification of those persons (or animals) who have had such an association with an infected person, animal, or contaminated environment as to have had the opportunity to acquire the infection.	Close Contact Epidemiology,Communicable Disease Contact Tracing,Contact Investigation,Contact Screening,Index Case Epidemiology,Index Patient Epidemiology,Infectious Disease Contact Tracing,Notification, Partner,PUI Epidemiology,Partner Notification,Patient Zero Epidemiology,Person Under Investigation Epidemiology,Epidemiology, Close Contact,Epidemiology, Index Case,Epidemiology, Index Patient,Epidemiology, PUI,Epidemiology, Patient Zero,Investigation, Contact,Partner Notifications,Screening, Contact,Tracing, Contact
D017053	Infection Control	Programs of disease surveillance, generally within health care facilities, designed to investigate, prevent, and control the spread of infections and their causative microorganisms.	Control, Infection
D018432	Drug Resistance, Multiple	Simultaneous resistance to several structurally and functionally distinct drugs.	Drug Resistance, Extensively,Extensively Drug Resistance,Extensively-Drug Resistance,Multidrug Resistance,Multi-Drug Resistance,Extensively Drug Resistances,Extensively-Drug Resistances,Multiple Drug Resistance,Resistance, Extensively Drug,Resistance, Extensively-Drug,Resistance, Multiple Drug