CompletedNot Applicable

Analysis of CA-MRSA Transmission: An ED Population Sampling Strategy

United States575 participantsStarted 2015-08

Plain-language summary

Given that the Emergency Department (ED) has become the entry way for large populations of patients into the health care system, a strategy of sampling MRSA isolates in ED populations and merging this information with patient-level data may present a window to hypothesize and investigate CA-MRSA transmission within the community and its impact on hospital-acquired infections.

Who can participate

Age range1 Month

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Patient or Legally Authorized Representative (LAR) must have voluntarily signed an Institutional Review Board-approved informed consent form before initiation of any study procedures * Patient presents with an acute abscess or a non-post-operative skin/soft tissue infection * Patient presents through the UFHealth Shands Emergency Department Exclusion Criteria: * Patients who are employed by UFHealth and provide direct patient care * Patients who have previously been enrolled in the study * Patients who are not suitable for the study in the opinion of the investigator

What they're measuring

Strain Relatedness Identification Through Phylogenetic Analysis

Timeframe: 1 Hour

Trial details

NCT IDNCT02363166

SponsorUniversity of Florida

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeOBSERVATIONAL

Primary completion2018-04-04

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