Baseline prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in patients who develop a surgical site infection in hip and knee replacements: A brief report

Prior to clean surgeries, decolonization with topical antimicrobials may lead to an increase in antimicrobial resistance. To provide a baseline prevalence of resistance to topical antimicrobials, in Alberta, specimens were collected from surgical site infections following hip and knee replacements. Among 81 samples with complex surgical site infections, in 43 specimens Staphylococcus species were isolated. Only coagulase-negative staphylococci isolates carried resistance genes with 10 carrying the gene qac and 6 carrying the MupA gene.(c) 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).