Thirty years of epidemiological surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Belgian hospitals: are we able to keep on lowering the curve?

Last updated on 17-1-2025 by Katrien Latour

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SCIENSANO

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Background Sciensano, the Belgian institute for health, analyses data on antimicrobial resistance collected from Belgian acute carehospitals (n=103 mergers in 2022). The first national surveillance program for methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was initiated in 1994. Initially, participation in this surveillance was voluntary, but became mandatory in 2006. Methods Data, aggregated at hospital level, are collected retrospectively in the following year by hospital’s microbiology laboratoriesand/or infection prevention and control (IPC) teams. Both invasive and non-invasiv…

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