Soroush, Setareh and Rezaei, Faranak and Ghanbari, Fatemeh and Halimi, Shahnaz (2023) A five-year systematic review and meta-analysis study on methicillin resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis strains in Iran. Iranian Journal of Microbiology.
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Abstract
BackgroundandObjectives:Oneofthemostprevalentdrug-resistantbacteriaismethicillin-resistantStaphylococcusepi-dermidis(MRSE)causinghealthcareinfections.Previously,ameta-analysisstudyonthefrequencyofMRSEwasconducted fromMar2006toJan2016inIran.Thepresentstudyaimedtoevaluatethechangesinthisprevalenceinthelast 5yearsin differentcities in Iran.MaterialsandMethods:PublishedarticlesonthefrequencyofMRSEwerecollectedfromthe WebofScience,PubMed, Scopus,GoogleScholar,CochraneLibrary,andIraniandatabasesfromthebeginningof2016totheendof2020.Ofthe503recordsidentified, 17studiesmettheinclusioncriteria,andtheirextracteddatawereanalyzedusingcomprehensive meta-analysis version 2.0 (Biostat).Results:TheanalysisshowedthatthefrequencyofMRSEhasdecreasedsignificantlyinthelastfiveyearsandreached60.8 [95% confidenceinterval (95% CI) 54.2-66.9] among culture-positive cases of S. epidermidis in Iran.Conclusion:ThenoticeablereductionintheprevalenceofMRSEinIrancouldbeduetotheimprovementofinfectioncon-trolprogramsandinterruptionofthepathogentransmissioncycle.Anotherinfluentialreasonisthesignificantreductionin methicillin prescriptions by physicians for infections caused by staphylococci.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RZ Other systems of medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences > School of Medicine |
| Depositing User: | samira sepahvandy |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2023 06:14 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2023 06:14 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lums.ac.ir/id/eprint/4124 |
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