Active Bacterial Core Surveillance (ABCs) Report Emerging Infections Program Network : Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, 2007 (Update)

Last Updated: September 27, 2017ABCs Areas: California (3 county San Francisco Bay area); Colorado (5 Denver area county); Connecticut; Georgia (8 county Atlanta area); Maryland (1 Baltimore area county); Minnesota (1 metro Twin City county); New York (1 Rochester county); Oregon (3 county Portland area); Tennessee (1 Nashville county).Note: the population under surveillance changed from 2006.ABCs Population: The surveillance areas represent 16,968,233 persons.Source: National Center for Health Statistics bridged-race vintage 2007 postcensal file.ABCs Case Definition: Invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) disease: isolation of MRSA from a normally sterile site in a resident of the surveillance area in 2007. Cases of disease are classified into one of three epidemiologic classifications. A case is classified as hospital-onset (HO) if the MRSA culture was obtained on or after the fourth calendar day of hospitalization, where admission is hospital day 1; as healthcare-associated community-onset (HACO) if the culture was obtained in an outpatient setting or before the fourth calendar day of hospitalization and had one of more of the following: 1) a history of hospitalization, surgery, dialysis, or residence in a long term care facility in the previous year, or 2) the presence of a central vascular catheter; and as community-associated (CA) if none of the previously mentioned criteria are met.Citation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2007. Active Bacterial Core Surveillance Report, Emerging Infections Program Network, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, 2007File: Sep17staticfixedPublication date from document properties.mrsa07.pdf201