Infectious Diseases

Positive deviants—role models for MRSA control

An approach to social and behavioural change—positive deviance (PD)—has been linked with improved control of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a US multicentre study. “Reports of successful multicentre interventions to reduce the problems of endemic antimicrobial-resistance among US hospitals are rare”, says John Jernigan, part of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, GA, USA) team that did the analysis.
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The Lancet Infectious Diseases