The investigation of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus carriage in students.

VII. SUMMARYThis surveillance was conducted in order to investigate the carriageratio of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA), which is informed to be growing in numbers in our region. The studyincluded 2015 students, 1012 whom were from high school and 1003 ofwhom were from primary schools. Nasal MRSA carriage prevalance, variousrisk factors and antibiotic sensitivity were investigated. Standart methodswere used to determine the isolated strains microbiologically and antibioticsensitivity.No MRSA carriage could be found with any of the students who tookpart in our study. Methicillin sensitive S. aureus colonization was found to be14.7 %, 93.3 %of these isolated strains were resistant to penicillin and 14.2% were resistant to erythromycin. S.aureus carriage was found to be moresiginificant between the primary school students. No significant relation couldbe found between the nasal carriage and the risk factors questioned for CA-MRSA.In conclusion, traditional treatment methods are still thought to be safefor the empirically treatment of community-acquired S.aureus suspiciousinfections. Even if CA-MRSA infections seems not to be a serious threat inour region at present, it is essential to carry out prevalance study within thevarious parts of the community.