Good article...being it is carried in our nasal passages, screening is helpful, but will have some misses...BD
But the vast majority is without symptoms and only 5.1% have full-blown clinical infections, according to Stephan Harbarth, M.D., of the University Hospitals of Geneva, and Werner Albrich, M.D., of University Hospital Bern.
One implication is that screening efforts aimed at symptomatic infections are likely to miss a large proportion of colonized healthcare workers who might transmit the bacteria, they wrote in a literature review in the May issue of Lancet Infectious Diseases. "Staphylococcal dispersal is mainly dependent on whether the person is a nasal carrier," they said, so that "screening of infected healthcare workers only will likely miss a large number of asymptomatic personnel capable of transmitting MRSA to patients.
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