[A guide to prevent infectious disease due to MRSA].

Now in Japan, infectious diseases due to MRSA is an important problem to solve and it has a growing social interest. It is clearly associated with hospital infections. So most important thing for us is to prevent and treat properly hospital infections. As a result of thorough investigations in a hospital for aged persons and a general hospital, we developed some guidelines to prevent MRSA infections. It is necessary to have a prevention committee in the hospital which will do the followings: Reveal the present condition of hospital infections by thorough investigations, make appropriate choice of antibiotics, good care of patients having infectious diseases due to MRSA, good care of carriers, better use of disinfectants, and education of medical staffs.

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