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Observations on the resistance to drying of staphylococcal strains

¹Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006

^*Department of Microbiology, Fairfax Institute of Pathology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW 2050, Australia

Received September 19, 1987 Revision received November 2, 1987.
Summary. Death rates have been determined for staphylococcal strains dried on cotton blanket material and stored at room temperature in the dark and in the light. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains that produced a golden pigment and had a wide distribution within the hospital survived for longer periods than MRSA strains that produced little pigment and had a restricted local distribution. Death rates of methicillin-sensitive strains of S. aureus at day 7 were similar to those of the general epidemic MRSA strains, and there was no significant difference between the death rates at day 7 of the local epidemic MRSA strains and the coagulase-negative strains.

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