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Climatic Factors and Community - Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections : A Time-Series Analysis Study
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- Sahoo, Krushna Chandra (author)
- Department of Public Health Sciences (Global health/IHCAR), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Sahoo, Soumyakanta (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Marrone, Gaetano (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Pathak, Ashish, 1973- (author)
- Karolinska Institutet,Uppsala universitet,Internationell mödra- och barnhälsovård (IMCH)
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- Lundborg, Cecilia Stålsby (author)
- Department of Public Health Sciences (Global health/IHCAR), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Tamhankar, Ashok J (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- 2014-08-29
- 2014
- English.
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In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. - : MDPI AG. - 1661-7827 .- 1660-4601. ; 11:9, s. 8996-9007
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- Skin and soft tissue infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus (SA-SSTIs) including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have experienced a significant surge all over the world. Changing climatic factors are affecting the global burden of dermatological infections and there is a lack of information on the association between climatic factors and MRSA infections. Therefore, association of temperature and relative humidity (RH) with occurrence of SA-SSTIs (n = 387) and also MRSA (n = 251) was monitored for 18 months in the outpatient clinic at a tertiary care hospital located in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. The Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method was used for antibiotic susceptibility testing. Time-series analysis was used to investigate the potential association of climatic factors (weekly averages of maximum temperature, minimum temperature and RH) with weekly incidence of SA-SSTIs and MRSA infections. The analysis showed that a combination of weekly average maximum temperature above 33 °C coinciding with weekly average RH ranging between 55% and 78%, is most favorable for the occurrence of SA-SSTIs and MRSA and within these parameters, each unit increase in occurrence of MRSA was associated with increase in weekly average maximum temperature of 1.7 °C (p = 0.044) and weekly average RH increase of 10% (p = 0.097).
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
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