Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, epidemiology and burden on hospitals

Lauren Edna Bloomfield; Geoffrey Coombs; Paul Armstrong

doi:10.1017/S0950268824001201

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Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, epidemiology and burden on hospitals

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Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, epidemiology and burden on hospitals

Lauren Edna Bloomfield, Geoffrey Coombs and Paul Armstrong

Epidemiology and infection, Vol.152, e147

2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268824001201

PMID: 39601098

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Abstract

infectious disease epidemiology

Staphylococcus aureus

surveillance

burden of disease

community-associated infection

Australia

This study presents surveillance data from 1 July 2003 to 30 June 2023 for community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) notified in the Kimberley region of Western Australia (WA) and describes the region’s changing CA-MRSA epidemiology over this period. A subset of CA-MRSA notifications from 1 July 2003 to 30 June 2015 were linked to inpatient and emergency department records. Episodes of care (EOC) during which a positive CA-MRSA specimen was collected within the first 48 hours of admission and emergency presentations (EP) during which a positive CA-MRSA specimen was collected on the same day as presentation were selected and analysed further. Notification rates of CA-MRSA in the Kimberley region of WA increased from 250 cases per 100,000 populations in 2003/2004 to 3,625 cases per 100,000 in 2022/2023, peaking at 6,255 cases per 100,000 in 2016/2017. Since 2010, there has been an increase in notifications of Panton-Valentine leucocidin positive (PVL+) CA-MRSA, predominantly due to the ‘Queensland Clone’. PVL+ CA-MRSA infections disproportionately affect younger, Aboriginal people and are associated with an increasing burden on hospital services, particularly emergency departments. It is unclear from this study if PVL+ MRSA are associated with more severe skin and soft-tissue infections, and further investigation is needed.

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Title: Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, epidemiology and burden on hospitals
Authors/Creators: Lauren Edna Bloomfield - Government of Western Australia Department of Health
Geoffrey Coombs - Murdoch University
Paul Armstrong - Government of Western Australia Department of Health
Publication Details: Epidemiology and infection, Vol.152, e147
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of pages: 9
Identifiers: 991005719221907891
Murdoch Affiliation: Centre for Biosecurity and One Health
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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Collaboration types: Domestic collaboration
Citation topics: 1 Clinical & Life Sciences; 1.23 Antibiotics & Antimicrobials; 1.23.173 MRSA and VRE
Web Of Science research areas: Infectious Diseases; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
ESI research areas: Social Sciences, general