Community Staphylococcal Infection—Relationship to the Hospital Problem

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Abstract
Review of the literature concerned with the prevalence and effects of Type 80/81 Staphylococcus in the community. Original data showed that 62% of the 340 cases of disease due to this type organism could still be related to hospital exposure, even in Ohio communities where nursery centered outbreaks had been shown earlier to be the source of infection in families outside the hospital. Secondary cases of disease were observed in approximately 10% of persons and in 25% of families exposed to cases caused by this organism. The prevalence of nasal colonization by Type 80/81 Staphylococcus in several non-hospital populations was 5% or less. Type 80/81 Staphylococcus disease was not as prevalent at the time as earlier reports had assumed it would be, and it did not spread so easily in the community as in the hospital.